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"The Lynching"
Some races faced racism in the cruelest of ways. "The Lynching" by Claude McKay describes the horror of being a black person in the south at that time peroid. The poem is also describes death, pain, and the suffering lynching caused to others.
"His father by the cruelest ways of pain." This quote "his father by the cruelest ways of pain" describes pain. It is saying that lynching was very painful by saying it was by the cruelest way of pain. The cruelest way of pain doesn't mean lynching is so cruel even though hanging a person is very cruel. It's saying that the people who committed the pain did it for the cruelest reason of pain, or in this case murder, which was the reason of racism.
"His sprit ascended into high heaven". This quote symbolizing the death of any person who was lynched by any person. The quote "His spirit ascended into high heaven" is saying in a religious term that the people who were lynched and were murdered were going someplace better......

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