Striving of the Negro People

Between me and the other earthly concern there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of prudence; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, rumpus round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, optic me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colourise man in my town; or I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood seethe? At these I smile, or am interested, or bowdlerize the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the accredited question, How does it feel to be a problem? I serve up seldom a word. And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,â€"peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, exempt perhaps in babyhood and in Europe. It is in the earlier days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation first burst upon one, each(prenominal) in a day, as it were. I remember wellhead when the shadow swept across me. I was a small-scale thing, away up in the hills of New England, where the dark Housatonic winds mingled with Hoosac and Taghanic to the sea. In a wee wooden schoolhouse, something put it into the boys and girls heads to debase gorgeous visiting-cardsâ€"ten cents a packageâ€"and exchange.

The exchange was merry, process one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card,â€"refused it peremptorily, with a glance. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great nomadic shadows. That sky was bluest when I could acquire my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads. Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to top; for the world I longed for, and all its dazzling... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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