Strange temptation for a child, you may think; and yet in this wide land to-day a thousand thousand dark children brood before this same temptation, and feel its cold and shuddering arms.
This passage from The Souls of Black Folk broadens the narrative to emphasize that the "temptation" of hate and despair is a widespread experience for Black children.
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