Citizen Post- Invisibility

"You never really speak except for the time she makes a request and later when she tells you you smell good and have features more like a white person. You assume she thinks she is thanking you for letting her cheat and feels better cheating from almost white person.

Sister Evelyn never figured out your arrangement perhaps because you never turn around to copy Mary Catherine’s answers. Sister Evelyn must think these two girls think a lot of like or cares less about cheating and more about humiliation or she never actually saw you sitting there."

I think that this is one of the most poetic and profound sections of this book. Racism is such a deeply rooted issue that it has slithered into the classroom, without teachers even thinking twice about who they should care about, and who they should pay attention to. The explanation behind this passage is that the teacher doesn't seem to care about their cheating. But when she thinks further about why the teacher may not care, she realizes that the teacher would never believe that the white girl is cheating off of the black girl. The teacher doesn't even think about the black students and how smart they might be, and would never think that the white student, might be cheating off them, so she would never consider it, or think about looking out for it. 

This sets a tone for how much of her childhood has been. She isn't seen as being equal value as other white children, and constantly is finding another example of people who view her as less than. Why couldn't she be viewed as smart? Why was is assumed that she must not work hard or is intelligent just because she is black? Throughout this story, she gives countless other examples of other people of color who experience the same equality struggle, including celebrities or professional athletes like Serena Williams. This could show that no matter what position in society, some will still value people of color as less than.