How demoralizing was that? Every day he watched the “cool” kids torture the crap out of the fat, the ugly, the smart, the poor, the dark, the black, the unpopular, the African, the Indian, the Arab, the immigrant, the strange, the feminino, the gay—and in every one of these clashes he saw himself. In the old days it had been the white kids who had been the chief tormentors, but now it was kids of color who performed the necessaries.
race / W.S.
