February 23

Wright saying that disliking Jews was “part of his heritage” was just like the whites disliking the blacks. He had started to observe how white people treated black people and he wondered why people were treated that way. It was especially apparent in chapter one where he doesn’t see the problem with a “white” man beating a “black” boy because he thought it was a father and son. This is the first time he learns of the problems between the two groups. It interesting how he saw that situation to be different than him making fun of Jewish people especially those in the store. Wright was creating the same violence as the whites were, but he didn’t even know it. To him it was two totally different matters, but it seemed that it could be directly related to the situation betweens the blacks and whites which he didn’t understand.