black boy

One day when Richard was on his way home from work, he was offered a ride form a groupof white teenagers. When he gets there he finds out that whitesin the North are a lot nicer to blacks than in the South (Wright 229). There are actually whitesthat weren’t as mean as the ones that were in the South. Mostly how the whites had so much hate and powerover the blacks

. This shows that the whites have no trust in the blacks. He talked to a man that he worked with wholiked blacks and told him he wanted to read Mencken’s books. The whites loved to show how much authority they have over theblacks by beating them really badly. He was goingto be working for this white woman in her home. Aftersaving up Richard finally comes up with enough money to move to the North. He got Mencken’sbooks, after reading his books Wright thought that his “irreverence and mockeryon human authority gave him a new outlook on things”(unger 475). ” Instead of saying “no sir” because he did notanswer as he was suppose to he was hit with a whiskey bottle over the head byone of the guys and thrown off of the back of the truck (Wright 201). Thisshows that people are not the same everywhere you. In my opinion,I think that in a world filled with hate because of skin color anddiscriminated against everyday I could not get enough courage to walk to theone who kills my people and forge their signature on a note so I could get abook.