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After reading Black Boy chapter 15, I picked one of the parenthetical quotes (yeah yall like that word don't it?) on page 272. It's a rather long passage so I am only going to quote the parts of it that I want to talk about. When talking about how he feels that in order for white Americans to understand the Negro's problem, that it would take a much tougher America. The whites during this time were too fixated in color hate, that change was too complex a situation for it. Then Richard says, "culturally the Negroe represents a paradox: Though he is an organic part of the nation, he is excluded by the entire tide and direction of American culture". This comment here made me think of when Richard had first arrived in Chicago and he worked for the immigrant couple as a porter. I believe the couple had a pretty decent business, meaning that it brought in a decent amount of income, and Richard comments then about how he was born in America, therefore a part of it, but he is still at the bottom most rung in society compared to immigrants who aren't even from this country. They were allowed to have their own business operating a store, and live in a neighborhood that Richard wasn't even allowed in. I think that goes back to what he was saying about America, that they are so fixated on their color hate, that they won't even let their own natives live and prosper.