If We Must Die, Claude Mckay

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…whites that they have to realize that they are contradicting everything that they preach is morally right. McKay gave both audiences messages that insinuate the need for whites to establish equality and respect for the black community of 1919. He does not want blacks to accept the lifestyle that they are being forced to live, and he does not want white people to continue treating blacks as though they are part of an insignificant lower class.