Read the sentence from Notes from a Native Son . As we drove him to the graveyard, the spoils of injustice, anarchy, discontent, and hatred were all around us. Which best explains why Baldwin chooses to describe the results of the riot in Harlem with the word “spoils”?

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Baldwin uses the word “spoils” to imply that racial prejudice has resulted in humanity being at war with itself.

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Read the sentence from Notes from a Native Son . As we drove him to the graveyard, the spoils of injustice, anarchy, discontent, and hatred were all around us. Which best explains why Baldwin chooses to describe the results of the riot in Harlem with the word “spoils”?

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