John Steinbeck, had been a pussy, too afraid to make anything happen. He’d abandoned his characters to suffer. As had God. Only a white man had the inflated self-worth to write that book, and only a white man would have the secret pride to read it. It’s only the white man who clings to his guilt. Guilt for Adam’s fall. Guilt for Christ’s sacrifice and for black African slavery. It was clear to Jamal that for whites their guilt constituted a uniquely white form of boasting. Their breast beating was a humblebrag always saying: We did this! We thwarted God in the Garden! We killed his son! We
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