Based on the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem, it is reminiscent of how black people and other people of color exist in America. Race relations in America are born out of ignorance and fear and promulgated by demagogues who incite and inflame those who are fearful and undereducated. Compartmentalized and varying degrees of wholeness and transparency, anonymous figures move throughout their lives:
“We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!”
Race in the far reaches of the Celestial Platform has been reduced to a cerebral transformative reminiscent. Racial identities are exhibited openly and practiced as one would eat or breathe or walk. None of these characteristics stand out in such a way as to be any more than any other social gradient observation or practice within the aggregate.