Racism In Wright's Black Boy

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the black
boy's father. When Wright learned that this was not true, and that the boy
was beaten because of his race, he was un able to rationalize it. Even as
he got older he didn't see the color of people. In one instance Richard and
a friend are standing outside a shop when some white people pass by,
Richard doesn't move to accomodate the white people because he simple
didn't notice that they were white.
As a child, Wright ultimately learned to fear white people.
However, he still did not understand the social differences between the
races. Wright's uncle was killed by white people, and Wright's aunt and
another uncle were forced to flee from the whites.
When Wright asks his mother about these incidents she tells him ,
"You keep your mouth shut or the white folks Ôll get you too." As a
teenager Wright learns that a friend's brother was killed by a white man.
When he hears about this killing he seems unable to do anything other than
sit and think about the ...

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