In The Cotton States’ Exposition, Booker T. Washington effectively argues that just although race at times that was not always the case, he contracts the relationship between blacks and whites as one of ease and progression by using repetition, metaphor and diction. Booker T. Washington uses repetition in … to emphasize the importance of perfecting the relationship between the Negroes and white men. Washington indicates the idea that blacks and whites must care for each other by telling each white men to “cast down your bucket among these people who have without strikes and labor wars tilled your fields” (Washington 2). Because he states that the black men are willingly worked without pay or revolt, and constructs 3race by exemplifying black men as noble men who sacrifice their time. He contrasts the black man to the white factory to shows the white man was greedy, but the black man as humble. Washington states that before a crucial change, the blacks were “ignorant and inexperienced”, but because of this progression blacks began “at the top instead of the bottom” (Washington 1 & 2). Although the statement gives dignity to the blacks and creates them as inferior to whites because Washington refer that before the generosity of white men, blacks lacked intelligence and understanding, but because the white men, they have earned their position and gained intelligence. It symbolized the food pyramid, in which the top of the food chain has all authority over the levels below it. Washington lastly uses some contrasting diction to create a character for the black race. Washington hints that the blacks have only reached their position because of their “friendly relations with the southern white man” and the others, but then later emphasizes the hard work and sacrifice the blacks have contributed to society (Washington 2). He creates an image of