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For the white person who wants to be my friend

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  In Pat Parkers poem For the white person who wants to be my friend, she make the argument that "I am black, but that doesn't make any sense for you to treat me like I'm black." Parker makes this known for all people that, she doesn't want them to walk on eggshells around her or blacks. The first and the last stanza are the most important in this poem, they are the pure essentials of the Black struggle in America.
       The black struggle in America is more of an equality issue. People want to be treated fairly, but also they want reparations. Blacks want whites to be able to understand where they are coming from, without going into the past. Parker expresses this through the first stanza, "The first thing you do is forget that I am black. Second, you must never forget that I'm black." There are many times in the course of life where people will try to say the right thing around black people. When whites call blacks, minorities and African Americans it says to them lets give them a more "politically correct" name because white sounds so plain...