Kate Chopin being a white woman whose family had slaves during this time period but being bold enough to acknowledge the issues of race, is very interesting to me. She is clearly much more progressively thinking than other people. However, Chopin is discussing race issues from the perspective of someone who has never personally experienced that ridicule. Because of this, she isn’t able to completely and fully comprehend what the African-American population was experiencing in their every day lives while being slaves and what that really meant for Armand to discover he was of mixed race. Despite her lacking those hardships for herself, I really do appreciate the story she wrote and her bringing attention, to hopefully her community who may be in favor of racism, with these issues. I think that everyone should use their voice to advocate against racial inequalities despite your own racial background.
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Hi Julia! I agree it is interesting that Kate Chopin addressed racial concerns being that she is white and her family owned slaves. We both agree on this, which is cool. Chopin is unable to comprehend how people of color are treated and will never be able to do so. But like you said, I appreciate how she wrote the story to bring awareness.
I agree that it is interesting for a white woman to write about racism but do find it lacking proper perspectives. There seems to be mostly shortcomings of an outside perspective and none of the positives from the victims of racisms and how they face against it.