Zora Neale Hurston How It Feels To Be Colored Me Analysis

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"How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston is an essay speaking about her expressing thoughts on being a person of color. Hurston explains, “she is not tragically colored.” Hurston gets many people of color are hurt that slavery. Slavery is an unforgettable point of time in American history, but she will not dwell on the past. Considering, slavery took place years ago and colored people are living in a new day and time. Zora Hurston writing makes you think from a positive perspective. Hurston essay opened my mind up to new thoughts about social conflict that’s caused by people small minded perception of color. As I am reading this essay and reflecting back on Brent Staples essay called Just Walk on by, which I wrote a reflection