When the narrator of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man states that he traded his "birthright for a mess of pottage," what does he mean?
He denied his musical talent,
He ignored the wishes of his mother.
He forgot his father's heritage.
He traded a life fighting for ethnic equality for something insignificant.
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