The Latin root par means 'equal." Use this knowledge and your familiarity with affixes to arrive at a definition of disparity. How is this definition confirmed by context clues in the fourth paragraph?

The prefix dis- negates the equality of “par”, so a disparity would be an inequality. The context clues confirm this, as Douglass is contrasting the perspective of an enslaved person on July 4th with someone who is free.

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it's important for any number of settings.   but then i'm a retired teacher and my view may be biased.

it certainly will not weigh as a minus when applying to a college, while poor grades always work against you.

other factors are important like what you do to improve the community.