Black Womens Ways of Knowing

In Pearl Cage's Black Ice the title stood out to me.  On page 386 Joyce said she had suddenly skidded on a patch of black ice.  She stated that this was not a time to be careless, but it was a time to review the events of the day and figure out what went wrong.  I thought of congressman Busbee as black ice. At the conclusion of her proposal she was ridiculed by Congressman Busbee. She did not see this coming.  I felt as though his interrogation sort of steered her into a different direction ending in the result of her disposing of her last proposal. It somewhat intimidated her .  She answered the questions as confidently as she could, but by the end of the story her final goal was not reached. I felt like this was the time for her to "review the events of the day and figure out what went wrong."