More specifically, the Sambo doll represents the old racist stereotypes that are still present even without slavery. The jingle, singing "shake him, stretch him by the neck and put him down - he will do the rest" (Ellison, 431) alludes to the control that white people exert over their backs, even in the years after the abolition of slavery. . Additionally, the narrator describes the doll "throwing herself with the fierce defiance of someone performing a degrading act in public, dancing as if receiving perverse pleasure from her movements" (Elisson, 431). Clifton, having been excluded from the brotherhood, now mocks their ideals by demonstrating that whites will always have the main role when it comes to dealing with blacks. Similarly, Booker T. Washington advised in his 1895 speech: "The wisest of my race understand that agitation about questions of social equality is extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges granted to us must be the priority. the result of fierce and constant struggle rather than artificial forcing” (Washington, Atlanta Exhibition Speech). He invites African-Americans to fight but not to fight against others. Equality will come to us through privileges but agaiation is not the right path to follow for the social