Dialectical Journal 1
(PG 1) Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget.
These lines reinforce the idea that women of these times (between the 1900s and 1920s) were treated poorly. It’s bad enough how white women were treated, but black women were treated even worse. They were beaten, raped and worked to death (depending on the situation.) Because of all these hardships they have to forget about all the terrible things that happen in their lives and only remember the good things, or the things they don’t want to forget. It probably helped them stay alive and gave them reason to live.
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