Claude McKay’s passion for social justice and lynchings during the Harlem Renais

Claude McKay’s passion for social justice and lynchings during the Harlem Renais

Claude McKay’s passion for social justice and lynchings during the Harlem Renaissance reflects his paired commitment to two lives. Is he an artist or an activist?  His work serves as a painful mirroring of the acts of lynchings, an inhumane appearance of systemic racism. With the poems and soruces I’ve attached below, explain why McKay felt so passionate about exposing negative traditinal southern practices such as lynchings. Also, why he chose to express such hatred towards the white man and segregation.