#19 Caucasia
A passage that caught my eye came at the very beginning of the reading. On page 87…
“My mother looked out into the night and said, “Everybody who can will fuck you over. Never trust power, wherever it comes from. It’s always”— her voice had raised a notch—”and I mean aways, corrupt. ”You hear me?”
This statement says a lot about Birdies mother and how she feels about society in general. As a white women who is married to a black man she is already outcast and this passage shows how discontent she is with the ways of the world.
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tomneeson said,
November 24, 2009 at 9:08 pm
I had never really considered that Birdie’s mother’s discontent with society could stem from the fact that she’s a white woman married to a black man in the 70′s, but it makes alot of sense. Her relationship has never been seen as legitimate from the mindset of the status quo.