During a period of widespread racial discrimination in the United States, the wearers of the mask do not want people to see their pain because of fear of facing dire and dangerous repercussions.
What is discrimination?
Making unwarranted disparities between individuals "based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they" formally or implicitly belong is known as discrimination.
In the late 19th century, when black people in America were experiencing hardship, they tended to hide their actual emotions of grief, defeat, and desperation over the abuse they had endured at the hands of white people out of fear of facing dire and catastrophic consequences.
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