Question

Which of the following sentences from Zora Neale Hurston's "What White Publishers Won't Print" best supports the author's opinion that white Americans perceive educated African Americans as a threat?

A.Man, like all the other animals fears and is repelled by that which he does not understand, and mere difference is apt to connote something malign.

B.National coherence and solidarity is implicit in a thorough understanding of the various groups within a nation, and this lack of knowledge about the internal emotions and behavior of the minorities cannot fail to bar out understanding.

C.The fact that there is no demand for incisive and full-dress stories around Negroes above the servant class is indicative of something of vast importance to this nation.

D.I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.

E.Argue all you will or may about injustice, but as long as the majority cannot conceive of a Negro or a Jew feeling and reacting inside just as they do, the majority will keep right on believing that people who do not look like them cannot possibly feel as they do, and conform to the established pattern.

Answer 1

The answer is D because her main argument in this essay she says: "Whites think people of color have no inner life" as if they are below other classes and other races.

Answer 2

A.Man, like all the other animals fears and is repelled by that which he does not understand, and mere difference is apt to connote something malign.

Step-by-step explanation:

Zora Neale Hurston was an African American writer and this text was published in 1950. She wrote her Literary criticism. The sentence above refers to the white's views of African Americans. The author questions the fact that the U.S ignores the minorities, even though they call themselves a united nation. So , in this sentence she gives one of the reasons why the white American community is indifferent towards the African Americans. The white thinks that difference is synonymous with being wicked.