Said The Little Girl Sparknotes

When a pilot’s plane crashes in a desert, he is met by the little prince. The little prince has traveled around many planets, all the while learning about different types of grown-ups and how strange they can be. The final planet the little prince visits is Earth, where he meets the pilot and teaches him the importance of love and how to return to his childlike mentality. This is the story of The Little Prince by the French pilot and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This novella is Antoine's commentary on human nature and society disguised as a children’s book. Moments of this story prove to be useful as a lens for African American literature. In return, African American literature also provides new meanings to The Little Prince.
Double consciousness, as introduced by W. E. B. Du Bois is a “sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others or measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity” (Du Bois 38). In other words, double consciousness is the sensation experienced by a minority group, which causes them to view themselves through the eyes of the majority. This concept is better understood when looked at in “‘Only White People,’Said the Little Girl” by Topher Sanders. In this piece, Sanders describes an instance where his black son was refused by a white girl to play on playground
Baobabs are trees that can easily overtake a planet as small as the little prince’s. When they begin to sprout they look the same as other, more pleasant plants, but if they are allowed to grow they will slowly engulf the entire planet, completely taking over and destroying it. Ironically, destroying the planet, in turn, destroys themselves. Looking at Rufus through the Baobabs, it can now be seen that racism is a seed that behaves like a baobab within