Read the excerpt from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? * * * Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? According to the poem, the speaker feels that the relationship between whites and African Americans is

According to the poem, the speaker feels that the relationship between whites and African Americans is:

tense and unequal.

Let's explore why the above is the correct answer by looking at the poem "Harlem".

"Harlem" is a poem by Langston Hughes. In this poem, Hughes reveals that the relationship that exists between whites and the African Americans is tense and not even.

Thus, the above answer is the correct answer.

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tense and unequal.

Explanation:

The excerpt from Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem" shows a speaker who feels that the relationship between whites and African Americans is tense and uneven. This is made clear when the dream of equality for African Americans is always postponed, because whites continue to be favored by society. As a result, African Americans are increasingly distant from being treated as equals and this tense and uncomfortable relationship, where their dreams weigh, sink, dry and explode.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.