One thing that has stuck with me, really stuck with me, is something from the beginning. Maybe it's because it's one of the first things you read. Maybe it's because that's the modest alert I'm usually am while reading. Who knows. Whatever it is, Malcolm seeing the woman tell his father that he's, "scaring these white folk."
This is why his father was killed, in such a terrible terrible way. He scared the white people. You would think that the white people wouldn't be afraid of such an "inferior" person but no, he scared them. They saw him as a threat.
There are two parts to this which really have a hold on me. There's the fact that the white...
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