In this essay, Ralph Ellison uses the form of a letter from a concerned citizen to a senator about blacks having “Doggy-Style” sex to demonstrate racism of whites toward blacks and their misunderstanding of the black race.  In the letter an 80-year-old man describes the act as unnatural and sees it as the “nigger’s” way of trying to get above the dominant whites by confusing them.  He says that the “nigger” is capable of having continued sexual intercourse past the normal length of a white man and that should be of great concern to all.  Because this was written pre-Civil Rights movement, the use of the word “nigger” was considered acceptable and the way the old man refers to blacks as unnatural and inhuman shows the terrible misunderstanding between the two races.  This essay is meant to be comical because the thought of an elderly man writing to a senator about this topic and expecting him to investigate the matter for the security of the people is completely absurd.  Ellison considers many questions in this essay which include, “what is love, what is evil, is truth absolute or relative, and what motivates human behavior?”