In the text, the author discusses how the slave trade contributed to the connection between slavery and race. How do you think this contributed to modern day racism?

what excerpt?

explanation:

disrespectable. hope that

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can