Read the excerpt from the interview with E. Y (Yip) Harburg Everybody picked the song up in '30 and '31. Bands were playing it and records were made. When Roosevelt
was a candidate for President, the Republicans got pretty worried about it. Some of the network radio people
were told to lay low on the song. In some cases, they tried to ban it from the air. But it was too late. The song
had already done its damage.
From the content of the excerpt, it can be inferred that
x the money Harburg made from the song made him a very wealthy man.
the song and its message struck a chord with the American public
the Republican Party lost the elections of that particular year
the president was a big fan of Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney

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.