7. The Patriots Ch. 10-12

This was painful to read. He donated his winnings to teach the Africans manners and assimilate! Watch white privilege work in this story. African celebrations (culure) are written as obnoxious and yet the white men stoning the brother get actual dialogue to express their reasoning. The inly person of color who have agency in this story are Americans whi have sacrifice and forgive (respectable negroes). On top of that the Africans are condemned publicly for the "uncivilized" behavior without any context to which is then held on equal par as stoning someone (physical violence). This is made worse by the fact that writer chose a person of color to spew this crazy respectability poltics racist bs. I know a lot people feel this way, even some people of color. But you can't write a story about tolerance and then encourage assimilation without your readers questioning your motives. Your attempt to write a moral tale has done more harm then good here. A protagonist who has more contempt for immigrants than he does for the white culture that has been violent towards him throughout this entire piece (he's silent about the alienation and racial slurs) is deeply problematic. Let's white privilege and violence off the hook.