We Wear the Mask (Reflection)

It is about discrimination of the African-American slaves of the early United States, this is his way to express his emotions and to show that there is discrimination, it also about the people who was treated with such disrespect and humiliation that is understandable why they would mask their true thoughts and their emotions. To make their daily lives easier, they spoke and acted the ways that their white owners dictated, their lives had, to a point, that been taken away from them, but there were some things that could never be taken away from them, and that is their inner strength and their spirituality. This poem used to cry it out by the African-Americans throughout history, suffered with. It is obvious that even there’s discrimination, they are a deep, religious faith with God and one’s spirituality can carry them through even the most dreadful situations. They put on false faces and pretend for many different reasons