"Incident" Reflection

Incident by Countee Cullen is a piece of Harlem Renaissance. The poem deals with an instance when he experienced racial discrimination. While he was visiting Baltimore a boy yelled a racial slur at him. Because of this he says that “I saw the whole of Baltimore, from May to December: Of all the things that happened there, that’s all that I remember”. I think that this is not only meant to show the harm that racism can cause someone, but also how a bigot can taint a whole community.