It was late in the dusk of evening when tom walker reached the old fort, and he paused there awhile to rest himself. anyone but he would have felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place, for the common people had a bad opinion of it, from the stories handed down from the time of the indian wars; when it was asserted that the savages held incantations here, and made sacrifices to the evil spirit.” they feared that indian uprisings would soon take place in the region. they believed indians to be primitive people with superstitious beliefs and practices. they believed it was foolish to go out into the surrounding forests and swamps alone.

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that. which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious. b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world. c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love. d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.