While watching a jazz performance with a white person, she observes the sharp differences between herself and this other person. She recognizes that “he is far away and [she sees] him but dimly across the ocean and the …show more content…
However, during her experience at the jazz concert, she felt the separation of races because of the variety of perspectives on the music. It seems as if Hurston is contradicting herself by allowing a music preference to make her feel colored when she recognized that everyone is different inside along with outside. Hurston makes a wonderful effort to be righteous and recognize that color is not an effective system for classifying individuals, but it is hard to believe that she would take the person’s opinion so harshly if he/she were also colored. Considering that Hurston is not angry towards people who believe in stereotypes, it is easy to believe that she did not intentionally mean to judge her counterpart simply because of skin color. It has been proven that belief in stereotypes and prejudice notions can be unconscious. Since Hurston attempts to be objective and colorblind, recognizing that racist actions may be independent from their consciousness could strengthen her argument