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Black Boy

From the early days of Richard’s childhood, Richard was always alienated from his environment. Even though he tried to distance himself from the prejudice all around him, the white people still tried to turn him into the stereotypical southern black person. However, throughout the story Richard is also alienated by his own people and perhaps even more then from the white people.
Richard was always a rebel, from his boyhood to his older teenage years. Richard’s grandmother was always excessively beating him. From the beginning, Richard would not subdue below the white man himself like the other black people around him did. The white people around him knew that he was different from other black men. They were scared because he challenged the system that they had created for themselves as the super power. They feared Richard, and some of the white people felt it necessary to act out their racist feelings in order to cover up their fear. His white......

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