These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destruction（39).

Helga, under Larsen's depiction, exclaims such disagreement to the so-call advocates in racial issues. This is especially common in the black communities, where people fight for anti-discrimination and African American suffrage and rights detest the fact of them being black. "These people" in the passage above could refer to those people mentioned above, or it could also be applied to some of the white leader at the moment. It is the "love of color", the" joy of rhythmic motion" that's the most important for embracing one's race, not merely privileges. This topic relates to Gay NY we just finished last week: How people struggle within regulations and laws but forget to celebrate themselves.