As was stated in the first paragraph, it seemed as if her parents tried to cover up the fact that racism, "Was a new and crushing reality "(Lorde, para7). Another instance where her parents tried to cover up racism was when her sisters' senior trip was to Washington, and her teachers returned her deposit to her saying that the hotel they would stay at would not make her happy. Later to find out that Negroes were not allowed in the hotel they were staying in. And then when they went to the ice cream parlor, and were told they could not stay to eat. Her whole family just tried to shrug it off as if nothing wrong had happened. These were the conflicts that Lorde had to face and overcome
As was stated in the first paragraph, it seemed as if her parents tried to cover up the fact that racism, "Was a new and crushing reality "(Lorde, para7). Another instance where her parents tried to cover up racism was when her sisters' senior trip was to Washington, and her teachers returned her deposit to her saying that the hotel they would stay at would not make her happy. Later to find out that Negroes were not allowed in the hotel they were staying in. And then when they went to the ice cream parlor, and were told they could not stay to eat. Her whole family just tried to shrug it off as if nothing wrong had happened. These were the conflicts that Lorde had to face and overcome