There is a black man walking along the highway needing a lift do you stop to pick him up? In the essay “Umbilicus” by James Alan McPherson, two white men stop and ask a black man if he needs a lift, and he accepts their offer and the journey begins. Most people would not stop; this is a trust issue that many people go through almost everyday. The issue of trust seems to come and …showed first 75 words of 964 total…

…showed last 75 words of 964 total…black and white, says McPherson. If only every community could be as open and trusting with each other as the two brothers and the black man, for these two communities to come together and helped each other in a time of need. This is just what the brothers and the black man did, I think the brothers said it best, “ We toasted our Beer and talked of the need for more brotherhood in the world.”