Lula forces him into the untenable situation of having to process each of her statements as fact or fiction. Lula "I lie a lot it helps me to control the world" "(Dutchman the Slave p.9). Looking back to American history Whites has treated Blacks very brutally. They use guns to steal land in North America (during 1660 to 1880s) and force blacks to work on it as slaves. But no matter how hard they try to misread Scripture they cannot hide the wrong they are doing from their eyes. So they come up with a big lie: racism, that blacks are not as good as whites, that blacks are screwed up, that blacks are born bad. They build their society on that lie. The big lie receives the backing of law, religion and science. But it does not quite work; the country cracks apart into war between the slave south and the free north.
Lula insists Clay that she knows the truth about him that his clothes won't hide his blackness. He can't be free from heritage of slavery and she can't be free from the heritage of oppression. This is obviously a stereotype of how whites people represented by Lula viewed Black through the character Clay. She seems to hate Clay, explaining him that he has a "type" she has often seen ( p.12). She guesses that he has a black friend named Warren Enright with "phony English accent" and she also comments on his dress by questioning him that "what right you have to be wearing a three-button suit and striped tie, your grandfather was a slave, he didn't go to Harvard." Racism involves discrimination against individuals based on their racial category. Colorism, in contrast, involves discrimination against dark-.
complexioned African-Americans on the basis of their color. African-Americans, South Asians, Latin Americans, and other people of color have, for many generations, internalized this Eurocentric standard of attractiveness. Although American are always protest against discrimination for decades, many of them still trying to escape from their identity as regard to color of their skin, and appearance.
