Claude McKay: Poems

The White House

What mentality and ideal is mckay conveying to his audience?

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In my opinion, McKay is verbalizing his disenchantment with the government and its policies, its refusal to allow change, its refusal to challenge discrimination and allow for free speech and conversation.

Note, McKay realized that there would be controvery about the poem, The White House, and changed the poem's name to White Houses because he was afraid of being banned from re-entering the United States.

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The White House