Can someone explain what this means or what it’s asking me to do, ! < 3

Find 3 different ways the laws at the time discriminated against people of color. cite them correctly then explain why society never changed them or protested them. what was life in america at the time.

I think i might be about someone ‘loving her to death’ in the sense that whoever loves the girl, loves her so much that they are hurting her, particularly in the line ‘ you would take all the blur out of her eyes to fill up the empt space’, they are hurting her, but thinking they are helping