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Struggling with difficult race issues
Clarissa 2022-03-22 09:01:03
In heavy-tasting movies, the protagonist’s experience in prison is really miserable, but it is difficult to judge how he should think of his tyranny of using the roadside to trample and kill black people at the beginning. Under the protection of a small black man in the prison, the protagonist did not get worse, but instead accepted the social reality and realized the limitations of his racial vision. However, when the protagonist leaves the prison and returns to the real world, the harm of blacks in school and society is exaggerated. If whites pay attention to civilized self-protection, it becomes a problem...
Extended Reading
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Danny Vinyard: [writing the beginning of the essay] People look at me and see my brother.
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[Derek is leaving prison]
Lamont: 'Sup, man? You getting outta here? Well, c'mon man! What the fuck you waiting on?
Derek Vinyard: Yeah, you know, I got this funny feeling.
Lamont: Oh yeah? What's that?
Derek Vinyard: I'm thinking the only reason I'm getting outta here in one piece is you.
Lamont: C'mon man! Get the fuck outta here, man! You think I'm gonna put my neck on the line for some crazy-ass peckerwood?
Derek Vinyard: Yeah, right. Stupid.
[a moment of silence passes and Lamont looks away]
Derek Vinyard: That's what I thought. I owe you, man.
Lamont: Man, you owe me shit, a'ight?
Derek Vinyard: Yes, I do.
[Derek offers his hand and Lamont takes it]
Derek Vinyard: You'll be outta here in no time.
Lamont: C'mon man, it's a piece of cake, a'ight? You just take it easy on the brothers, a'ight? The *brothers*!