If your race built something and let everyone use it to call it their home, and in the end you feel over powered by the constant battle of racism wouldn’t you want to change the way it feels? The setting in this poem is about America, as simple as a table in America, you don’t feel a part of your country because of what other people will not let you do because of your ethnicity. Blacks have built America with the whites telling them how and when to do it, and yet some still feel as if they can’t enjoy the freedom that most of us take for granted. Duke Ellington states, “We were freed, and as before we fought Americans wars, provided her labor, and gave her music, kept alive flickering conscience, until we came more than a part of America.”
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In the poem Hughes says “Tomorrow I’ll be at the table” (8-9). It takes guts to do something like what he did and time to build up the courage, he wants to be equal more than ever. If the black man would have sat at the table today or yesterday in the poem he could have been one day closer to reaching his goal. People procrastinate all the time when they are afraid to do something or don’t want to do it in general, saying tomorrow is wasting time. Clary Lay states, “You procrastinate when you put off things that you should be focusing on right now, usually in favor of doing something that is more enjoyable or that you’re more comfortable doing” (8-10). Although this doesn’t relate to racism directly, it pertains to the idea of him putting off going to sit at the table. The quote by Lay can relate to the poem directly, although the black man could have been thinking about sitting at the table for years he did not feel comfortable doing so. He says that people procrastinate when people have more enjoyable things to do or are more comfortable doing. The black man obviously is not comfortable to step out of line and prove his point, even in the kindest way it would have meant
In the poem Hughes says “Tomorrow I’ll be at the table” (8-9). It takes guts to do something like what he did and time to build up the courage, he wants to be equal more than ever. If the black man would have sat at the table today or yesterday in the poem he could have been one day closer to reaching his goal. People procrastinate all the time when they are afraid to do something or don’t want to do it in general, saying tomorrow is wasting time. Clary Lay states, “You procrastinate when you put off things that you should be focusing on right now, usually in favor of doing something that is more enjoyable or that you’re more comfortable doing” (8-10). Although this doesn’t relate to racism directly, it pertains to the idea of him putting off going to sit at the table. The quote by Lay can relate to the poem directly, although the black man could have been thinking about sitting at the table for years he did not feel comfortable doing so. He says that people procrastinate when people have more enjoyable things to do or are more comfortable doing. The black man obviously is not comfortable to step out of line and prove his point, even in the kindest way it would have meant