This conversation showed him that there was another side to the barbershop. A side he’d always known was there but had dismissed. It could be a place of circular logic, where obtuse thinking was confirmed and reinforced by a pervasive groupthink. Yeah, you had some brothers like Lavell going against the tide, but for the most part everybody got in fucking line. Did they really think boys were gay because you weren’t a good father? He might not have been there for Isiah the way he wanted to, but even he knew that didn’t make his son gay. He didn’t pretend to understand Isiah’s life, but he
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