“You better be glad I’m giving you a chance, boy,” Lana Lee said. “There’s plenty colored boys looking for work these days.” “Yeah, and they’s plenty color boy turnin vagran, too, when they see what kinda wage peoples offerin. Sometime I think if you color, it better to be a vagran.” “You better be glad you’re working.” “Ever night I’m fallin on my knee.”
An example of the white small business owner vernacular.
