The Sellout

by Paul Beatty

ancient Rome or modern-day America, you’re either citizen or slave. Lion or Jew. Guilty or innocent. Comfortable or uncomfortable.

The baby, swaddled in blue because blue is for Crip-centric boys,

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So I chose to specialize in the plant life that had the most cultural relevance to me—watermelon and weed.

That’s the difference between most oppressed peoples of the world and American blacks. They vow never to forget, and we want everything expunged from our record, sealed and filed away for eternity.

Chavez Ravine, where a generations-old Mexican-American neighborhood was torn down, its residents forcibly removed, beaten, and left uncompensated to make room for a baseball stadium with ample parking and the Dodger Dog.

Research This.

The problem is that we don’t know whether integration is a natural or an unnatural state. Is integration, forced or otherwise, social entropy or social order? No one’s ever defined the concept.

black as a C+ in organic chemistry, black as me.

I feel seen lol