Read the excerpt from Pink and Say. “Least you got to carry. In the Forty-eighth, we couldn’t have guns at first. We fought with sticks and hammers and sledges. Can you imagine not trustin’ us with our own fight?” I couldn’t imagine such a thing. “Then when they did finally give us muskets, they were from the Mexican-American War. Those muskets jammed and misfired!” Why does the author most likely include this excerpt in the story? A. Like Say, she finds it wrong that African Americans were sent into battle without working weapons.

B. She feels readers should be aware of African Americans’ history of service fighting in American wars.

C. Like Pink, she is grateful that African American soldiers were finally given arms to defend themselves with.

D. She wants readers to understand that African Americans were the most skilled troops to fight in the war.