red flag , she already knew the setting wasn’t for her

i feel like she felt leftout because she havent been to a party and was weird about that

Khalil was killed in cold blood for just taking out a brush.

Star is invisible until someone says her name then once again she’s recognized as someone else.

they left his body on the floor for everyone to see then the cop was playing crazy because he wanted the people that showed up from the street to feel bad for him

How dare they disrespect Queen Tay Tay. SHE HAS 10 GRAMMY’S.

I really felt when she said “It’s dope to be black until it’s hard to be black”

There was a song with that same name, it was super popular and funny.

Same, I agree. They don’t really know her for who she really is. This also can be hard for her as a person but me personally I would hate to be known for being related to someone or someone’s daughter, I want to be known for who I am as a person.

This is a big thing to me because it shows me that Starr stays to herself and that not everybody knows her personally or as her own person but as her dad’s(Big Mav’s) daughter.

I like this when Tupac said “who do you believe in” And she said “ I dont know”

on page 11: The quote its cool to black till its time to be black

Ms. W is already an old woman, she is fufilled. These things aren’t important for her, she accepts death and wants to live her life as purely and contently as possible

The very fact that there is so much description in the story, I believe, implies importance in the fact that she has so many different valuable material objects, and they all have a history. It provides a strong setting, ambiance, and peer into the life of Ms. W

Gay brings it back to her experiences it shows how far she has gone and how much people actually supported her which in return helped her.

The myth Gay is talking about is personal responsibility and how them by themselves can achieve anything if they stay working hard enough but that just simply not true not everyone can achieve what they dream for.

Gay quotes Ta-Nehisi Coates because Ta-Nehisi is getting at how Obama is the first black president and how even after Obama became President black People still got half as much.

Roxanne gay thought Obama brothers keeper program would be a great way for educational purpose and a lot of opportunities for young men of color and more men would most likely join it and more in education and they educate other people.

Her white classmate and even the professor thought just cause Gay was black she knows everything about it an in the paragraph Gay said when to talk about race in the class they all turned around and looked at her because she was the only black person in the entire school. The experience Roxanne gay went through at college it was horrible the only black girl there, everyone looking at you making racial remarks and its sad that she went through that and had to educate the professor and her classmates.

when Gay said That her ambition would never be satisfied because in the article, she said “i might only be good enough for a black woman shame sometimes believing they might be right because that how profound racism”Gay could never be satisfied because her achievements she wants are not reaching the audience that she wants and the audience she wants are more black people to know what she has done and she barely had opportunities so this opportunity she wants to share with more black people so they know what she has done.