E: The Slave Narrative

Olidah Equiano's account of the Middle Passage answers my essential question by... Extension Race is sometimes used to camouflage the true issue of a debate. For example, the shown political cartoon depicts an elephant (representing Republicans) winning a chess match against a donkey (representing Democrats), which pulls out the "race card" out onto the board and declares itself the winner. This detail implies that Democrats cannon win a debate without obscuring the issue at hand by a non sequitur such as racism. Another detail is that the Democrat only manages to escape a loss—he was in check—by “pulling the race card” out of his shirt. This detail says that the Democrats always have "one trick up their sleeve," so to speak, and that they will "cheat" in a debate by calling the opposition racist. All-in-all, the political cartoon is saying that the Democrats cannot hold their own in politics without cheap tricks.