The writer is talking about his experience with the white folks such as the white police, white sales clerks, white passengers, and white strangers who they considered a thug and a security threat to them because he is dark. This paragraph is interesting simply because the writer resents such a stereotype and decides to stand firm and state that he is a human being like any other. (Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt 132).
The most interesting thing is that the writer, together with the other 3 doctors had dreams to be great in the future and the fact that they were African-Americans does not deter them from pursuing their dreams. The writer of the above paragraph decided to threaten some white people who are showing him prejudice because he is black. He says “look, I’m counting to three, if you don’t leave you gonna wish you had”. This shows the boy’s determination to be fearless before the white students who try to blackmail him. The author believes that black folks ought to grow while helping each other as the three men ate doing. On page 141, the writer says “all my life I had been taught that black folks have a responsibility to help one another out”. This quote means that the three folks are determined and ready to defy all odds and be able to become renowned African-American doctors.
The paragraph is very interesting since after all these cases of intimidation from the white people, the three boys end up being selected to be among the 40 most prominent African Americans in the US. The lesson here is that one should not be prevented from achieving his or dreams by the simple things that happen in life irrespective of whether they are hurting or not.
Works cited
Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, Lisa Frazier Page. The Pact. Penguin publishing group. 2003.
