He is rejected by trade unions, of every trade, and refused work while he lives, and burial when he dies, and yet he is asked to forget his color, and forget that which everybody else remembers.
Douglass emphasizes the hypocrisy of society's expectations for Black individuals to overlook the discrimination they face.
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