Richard Wright's list of "topics that southern white men did not like to discuss with Negroes" (231) was forbidden because of the relationship that the Negroes would acquire with the southern white men in the Jim Crow south. If Negroes could relate to white men or if Negroes could discriminate then they would no longer be perceived as the lowest class.
<Tab/>Wright knew the reason why these topics could not be discussed. As a child he took a job as "an agent for pro- Ku Klux Klan literature" (132) while not being aware of what was on the literature he was delivering. When…
