Extra Credit Assignment-True Identity Not Based On Color.

Several question arise from the reading, the first: Do we "truly" know out identity? and secondly, when the poem was written "colored" were not considered "Americans" but "Africans". I never understood the word "colored" and it bothers me to hear people use the word. I would like to ask : "What color are they?" What dost the question "Will my paper be colored that I write?" mean? A persons identity is not based on reace, position of authority or ones racial views.
In English B the first six lines introduces the primary characters and elaborates on the information provided in the poems title. The instructions provided are very simple for the assignment. The speaker starts to list the reasons that the assignment might not be so simple. The speaker is addressing reacism in America and that race has nothing to do with his identity.
The student speaker communicates in line seven to ten that he begins the assignment, but then stops to question, his views. In line nine the detail of "color" is a description of the student speaker who is black and an inhabitant of Harlem. Due to the speakers race and domical the reader would belive that the speaker has felt racism in America and this would effect his identity.
The speaker questions the assignment again in line sixteen through twenty. In line nineteen the words "you and me", who is the the author referring to? of course, the instructor and the student speaker. The speaker is referring to a fight against the ignorance that created discrimination.
The speaker identifies himself clearly in lines tewnty-one to twenty-six in terms of his likes: "I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love/I tike to work, read, learn, and understand life". The speaker is showing the reader, author and instructor that he is the same as them. In addition, the speaker is showing that race has nothing to do with what he likes or dislikes
The student asked "Will my paper be colored that I write?" in line twenty-seven through thiry three. He is trying to make a statement that race has nothing to do with what he likes or dislikes. The speaker wants to be seen as an American and not a colored person.
The speaker states in line thirty-four through fory-one that "no one white can exist as white without his/her "colored" counter part. The student is making an important point to the instructor and him both can learn from each other no matter what race they may be. The speaker is just wanting people to see him as an "American and not a black man for his race does not make up his identity".