Zora Hurston "How it feels to be colored me" & Six

I really think that we need to stop reading and writing and in general talking about the stupidity of our great nation, when they decided to treat black people as slaves. I think that it is time for America to move on. I don’t agree with the way people of color where treated back then and I would have been the first person to stand for someone of color. That being said I am tired of that time in America being used as a crutch for the black people of today. I think that it is completely ridiculous for a black person of today to use slavery as a means to win an argument or to start an argument. It happened in the past it has been rectified now lets move on. I also do not think that it should be taught in schools now. I don’t think we should have to read it or learn that it happened and hears why:

I feel bad when I read stuff like “How it feels to be colored me”. I had to sit threw the segregation part of history and watch video’s of what when done to people as they tried to protect their children who had been moved to an all white school. You know what I was doing while I watched that film? CRYING!!! I wish that I could go back and fix it, but I can’t. My children also felt bad when they have to read about it in school. I understand that it is a part of our history. However, it’s over with.

I also don’t think that a black child in school should have to sit threw watching or reading some of the things that where done to people of their race just because the color of their skin. Some of them feel bad after it, and some of them turn angry and expect that they are owed something. Let’s just let it be.

As for the story "The Gilded Six-Bits" she was a very talented writer. If you remember, people of color had no traditional schooling. I am sure this story has been cleaned up a little for reprinting in this book but it still does not detract from her talents as a writer.