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Adelinne · Diver Data inscrierii: 11/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 62

As the other poem by Hugues Children's Rhymes this also brings forth the issue of race and class, the discrimination between negru The Negro Problem and white white mind people. Even though there is in the poem democratic night there isn’t such thing, as they have to answer to the white’s questions Answering the usual questions/That come to white mind. fraises du bois, the lobster, Park Avenue invite us into a new world, that of rich people. There isn’t only the presence of discrepancy between white and black but also between rich and poor. The black man is not a poor one, but a rich one. Still, he is treated different, being called a Problem and he is invited to wait Solutions to the Problem,/Of course, wait but not all the whites discriminate, as we are told that being a problem is not so bad To be a Problem on/Park Avenue at eight/Is not so bad.

Ticala Ioana · Diver Data inscrierii: 11/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 56

This poem speaks about a negro man,and the feeling of darkness and this man is curious how they got here because U.S.A is a democratic country,and he is saying that he's very ashamed of being white and the only solution of this problem is to wait to see the results.

georgiana g · Trimis: 15/02/2012 15:46 Titlul subiectului:

As Adelina said, this is a poem that speaks about the problems of the black people. Even if the "darkness U.S.A" is a democratic country and there live a lot of dark skinned men, they are not seen as well as the others. The fact that he is asked " usual questions that come to white mind" reveals that the character has connections to the whites. Anyway he feels he can't fit with them as he should and nobody does nothing in order to solve the problem. The words are clear and clean and this means that the character is not from a getto, so he may be rich. The fact that he is rich and still can't fit there means that even if the times have changed the rasism still is present in people's mind.

Razvan517 · Trimis: 19/02/2012 17:10 Titlul subiectului:

As it was told above, we can clearly see the discrimination between people. In the society of that time, seeing a person of a different color was kind of weird, just like it still is in some locations today. Usually we have black people from the ghetto, or very pour negru people, but where we have a rich man that eats at a table in a restaurant. Although he has money and should be treated the same as any other rich person from that restaurant, he is not. People situație and feel ashamed. I think they are not ashamed because of the fact that they are white, but because of the fact people thought at that time about blacks. They should live (probably) in the ghetto with their own kind.

This poem is on that shows the problem between different ethnic groups and also the one between social classes.
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Gaalateea · Trimis: 20/02/2012 14:17 Titlul subiectului:

The first thing that came to my mind when seeing the title of the poem was canibals. And I may be way off, but even after reading the poem I'm still not shore there isn't a connection there. Because when the British discovered Africa and the black, they saw them as savage and a great majority of them, back in England, thought of the blacks as canibals. People at dinner asking the "usual questions that come to white mind" is still related to the fact that white peole, even after such a long time know nothing about the blacks, just as they new nothing about them when they thought they were canibals. As a negru dinner guest that he is, he is being eaten up by white people's ignorant questions relating the negro problem. But this is just a way of looking at things that poped into my mind when reading the title.
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Simona Timis · Plunger Data inscrierii: 27/Mai/2011 Mesaje: 39

Racism. The poem is about the difficulties the negru people confront with in order to integrate in American society.
The white rich people invited him not because they are better than other white people; they pretend being ashamed because they are white, but they are just curious about their guest and not interested in solve his problem.
Not all whites were discriminate.

Codreanu Andra Sofia · Rookie Data inscrierii: 26/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 9

The poem presents a black man eating at a restaurant with a bunch of white people. He is there for "answering the usual questions that come to white mind" but doesn't seem intimidated at all. More than that, the lines: "To be a Problem on/ Park Avenue at eight/ Is not so bad/ Solutions to the Problem/ Of course, wait", suggest that the negru man may be thinking that the situation is not that bad now, "at eight", because he is having a delicious meal and we don't need solutions to the negro problem.

Codreanu Andra Sofia · Rookie Data inscrierii: 26/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 9

The poem might be interrpreted also from the whites perspectives, thinking that is not so bad to be black, because he is treated well and we don't actually want to find a solution to the negro problem. Both anger and a sense of humour are present in this poem. I think the black man is angry because even he is having a meal with upper-class people, he is still part of the Negro Problem.

Ticala Ioana · Diver Data inscrierii: 11/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 56

Reexamination
In this poem the author speaks about the rights of the blacks and trying to answer to a question "How things got in this way in a democratic world?"
The answer to this question will depend on us because when we see a black man and we are acting different when we see him because we forgot that he has the same rights like us,so I think is a problem of mentality.The solution of this problem is to wait and to see the results.

Sergiu Mihis · Dunker Data inscrierii: 11/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 12

It's obviously that this poem it's about racism and discrimination between the negru people and the white people, the fact that being a black person in the United States is a tough job even though they are supposed to live in a democratic society but there is no împlinit society and problems like this one are always there.In the past the black people had no rights and now they do but this doesn't necessarily mean that they will be respected by all the white citizens.In the last line of the first stanza "I'm so ashamed of being white" we can see the irony and the fact that we cannot ignore this problem any more.
The end of the poem is nice saying that the answer to this problem is time.I could't agree more on this.