Racial conflict also runs into the same problem as identity where, even more so, the often times harsh content can mask the meaning of the work. I've categorized the poems based on how they revolve around, often times, racial equality. Despite what the poems may seem like, they often shift into showing the shared natures between humans. Such as violence and shared oppression among minorities. This category relates well with both childhood and Identity as Danez often relates how a race is defined is the way their treated. That they're no longer treated as what they were, but assumed what other races assumed upon them, often times Caucasians. Danez argues that even if white people repent, they're still placing the stigma of the "oppressed" onto them, pushing true equality further away. "The flower that bloomed thru grandmama's fence" is a great example of this. It explains that the African American race has become nothing but what whites have defined them as.