What do you think Alice Walker is saying in "Everyday Use" about the nature of heritage?

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obviously a strong proponent of racial equality and building positive racial identity, there
were a few aspects of the Black Power movement at large that she found to be particularly
detrimental. One of the most prominent was the tendency for the movement to speak for black
persons as a whole and to assume that all had lived the same experience. In particular, Walker
took issue with the assumption that black culture in an urban setting was somehow more
emphatically responsive to black heritage than black culture in a rural setting.


In "," Walker illustrates a frustration with the tendency of the
Black Power movement to disregard alternative narratives. She shows this in the form of two
sisters. Dee is a woman who is living an urban life and is fully involved in the identity and
social liberation of black persons. Maggie, on the other hand, is quiet, demure, and has little
concern for the world outside of her home.

Dee is quietly cruel to Maggie
for her...