The narrator, a young child witnessing the community's view on her family, recounts a "scare tactic" in which, "a few men gathered, white as angels in their gowns" (Trethewey 10). A few radical members of this young child's community gathered to burn a cross in her front yard, to scare her family away, and keep the community homogenous in their eyes. These citizens ethnic values, opposed to black citizens in their town, capitalize on the social stigma felt by African Americas during this time, and use these extreme tactics to preserve their "community" for
The narrator, a young child witnessing the community's view on her family, recounts a "scare tactic" in which, "a few men gathered, white as angels in their gowns" (Trethewey 10). A few radical members of this young child's community gathered to burn a cross in her front yard, to scare her family away, and keep the community homogenous in their eyes. These citizens ethnic values, opposed to black citizens in their town, capitalize on the social stigma felt by African Americas during this time, and use these extreme tactics to preserve their "community" for