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Wysłany: Pon 14:01, 14 Mar 2011 Temat postu: On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Publishedabndfw |
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is decision to identify himself as whiteit
was the most natural thing for someone with his outlook and temperament
and skin color to have done. All he'd ever wantedfrom
earliest childhood onwas to be free: not blacknot even white―
just on his own and free. He meant to insult no one by his choice
nor was he trying to imitate anyone whom he took to be his superior
nor was he staging some sort of protest against his race or hers.
He recognized that to conventional people for whom everything
was ready-made and rigidly unalterable what he was doing would
never look correct. But to dare to be nothing more than correct had
never been his aim. The objective was for his fate to be determined
not by the ignoranthate-filled intentions of a hostile world butto
whatever degree humanly possibleby his own resolve. Why accept
a life on any other terms?
This is what he would tell her. And wouldn't it all strike her as
nonsenselike one big sales pitch of a pretentious lie? Unless she
had first met his family―confronted head-on the fact that he was
as much a Negro as they wereand that they were as unlike what she
might imagine Negroes to be as he was―these words or any others
would seem to her only a yilai:
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