How it Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston was about a girl who loved to put on a show and be the center of attention in her small town. When she left later in life to go to Jacksonville is when she realized that she was different and that she was then “just a colored girl.” However, she did not want to feel sorry for herself for her race or blame other people. Her stance was that slavery was a long time ago and was what her ancestors had to go through in order for her to live …show more content…
Stripping away the gloss and ripping off your shoes to put somebody else 's on is a great start. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a perfect story for one to vicariously be the character of an oppressed black man. Throughout the story, the black man gradually unravels his lack of self esteem and exposes his double consciousness. The man character 's oppressed thought can be seen in this quote, “ What did I do to be so black and so blue?” (213). The systematic and social racism had cornered the character so much that he feeds into the white man 's lies. When he says black and blue, he equated oppression which is typically seen as the color blue with his cursed skin. His questions are not that of unrest from the punishment and bullying, but that of why he was born in that lower tiered skin color (of that