The book "Black Like Me" begins with an excerpt "Night coming tenderly, Black Like me" What's the symbolism?

Question

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Answer 1

Rest at pale evening...

A tall slim tree...

Night coming tenderly

Black like me.

INot sure but I guess it is the mercy of night, covering the pain of being considered different because of the color of his skin.

Wow!  I read this true story years ago in the 60s.  It was the height of the Black freedom movement.  Here is a white journalist who wants to know what it's like to be black, to see life from an African-American's experience.  So he takes a chemical that gradually turns his skin dark.  He is transforming from his relatively secure position as a white man into the insecure position of a black man touring the segregated states.  

Answer 2

This is rather pathetic, you know. It says BLACK LIKE ME. The symbolism is the freaking TITLE of the book!

"Night coming tenderly, black like me." "The night is black, just like me." The symbolism is that the night is black, like the person speaking, who I assume, is black.