Answer:
Racism:
"HOW DARK?" . . . I had not misheard . . . "ARE YOU LIGHT
OR VERY DARK?"
Explanation:
The poem tells a story about a landlady and a man. They have a very pleasant conversation until she finds out he is black. Then is when questions about the shade of darkness of is skin begin. “Are you light-skinned or very dark-skinned?”
The speaker tries to satirize the racism problem, telling the landlady that there are many types of dark. This poem is very dehumanizing and tells about peoples’ ignorance.
