GRGR(4): "I Wanna Be Black"

[Paul Mackin]

David Morris wrote:

> (62.38) A woman turns to look at him from a table.  Her eyes tell him, in
> the instant, what he is.  The mouth harp in his pocket reverts to brass
> inertia.  A weight.  A jive accessory.  But he carries it everywhere he
> goes.
>

Silly me, I thought the woman was a stuck up Radcliffe girl who was snubbing
Tyrone for his low social status. The same one possibly who in her well bred
way left the cherry in her drink glass for the slightly gauche T to filch.
Thus I drew a different conclusion but you may well be right.

It does seem like the staff is black and  the clientele white. In any case the
white men's room referred to doesn't ring true. I never saw  white rest rooms
except in the South. In the North the ONLY public rest rooms would be for
whites only.

I may be overlooking something.

                                                    P.