What is Hughes suggesting about racial issues in this poem?

What will be an ideal response?


* He raises the issue that truth for the instructor and truth for him may be different things, but that being African American does not "make me not like the same things others folks like who are other races."
* The narrator notes that the white instructor is part of him and he is part of the white instructor, though he assumes that neither always wants to be a part of each other.

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