What are the motifs in Black No More by George S. Schuyler?

Through its use of satire, the novel points out again and again how ignorant the majority of people are when it comes to telling truth from lies and when it comes to thinking for oneself. When Matthew is preparing to give his first speech in front of the members of the Knights of Nordica, for example, he realizes that they are not so different from the people he has seen at black church gatherings. This comforts him, but it is ironic that the one similarity Matthew sees between whites and blacks is their stupidity and their willingness to believe whatever they are told. In a novel about a society divided by race, it is not a compliment that the one uniting factor is ignorance.