Click the highlighted selection from the text that provides the strongest evidence for the answer to Part A. (1) Reflect on things past, as wars, negotiations, factions, etc.: we enter so little into those interests that we wonder how men could possibly be so busy and concerned for things so transitory. (2) [L]ook on the present times, we find the same humor; yet wonder not at all. . . . (3) No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before. . . . (4) The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

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.