How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Why should we fund this program, pay the extra insurance, and pay for the extra staff hours if these African Americans are just going to throw it away? […] They're going to be thinking that people like you don't deserve a chance. (6.41)
Mr. Cintron describes the twisted thought process of the people who fund the work program, who he believes are prejudiced against African Americans like Reese.
Quote #2
"I can tell where people come from by the way they talk, too," Mr. Gonder said. "They got a certain way of talking in Brooklyn. I don't like it." (7.40)
Mr. Gonder also thinks that Reese "looks like" he's from Brooklyn. Gosh, wonder why?
Quote #3
"You murdered somebody?" he asked me.
"No sir," I said. "I didn't murder anybody."
"White or black person?" he asked. (7.67-7.69)
What's worse—that Mr. Hooft thinks that Reese is a murderer just because he's in jail, the fact that he refuses to believe Reese's answer, or that it matters to him whether a victim is black or white?