Iforgot the title of this book! : (
it's a pretty short book that has a cover that is mostly blue and starts off with a bunch of teens playing monopoly and one person saying that he could win if he gets all of the railways. the book also is about 4 teens that skateboard a lot, one of which has a little sister. this sister wants to skateboard, but her older brother doesn't think she can. to prove herself she skates down this really dangerous mountain and gets seriously injured.
tell me if you !

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which i was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. he cannot afford to understand it. this understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has been frozen for so long. this excerpt from "if black english isn't a language, then tell me, what is? " is significant because -select all that apply- hughes imagines himself as a black slave. hughes uses black english to emphasize his argument. hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language. hughes explains the significance that black english holds for white people.