White Boy Shuffle, Paul Beatty
• Beatty, Paul. White Boy Shuffle. New York: Picador, 1996.
“…I’d watch my father draw composite sketches for victimized citizens who used his face as reference point.” (Beatty, 11)
““…approached a boy about my age who wore an immaculately pressed sparkling white T-shirt and khakis and was slowly pacing one slue-footed black croker-sack shoe in front of the other…”Damn, cuz. You talk proper like a motherfucker.”” (Beatty, 41)
“…we practice what we like to call ‘preventative police enforcement.’ Whereby, we prefer to deter habitual criminals before they cause irreparable damage to the citizenry and/or it property.” (Beatty, 47)
“Watching his hands shake, I realized that sometimes the worst thing a nigger can do is perform well. Because then there is no turning back. We have no place to hide…Successful niggers can’t go back home and blithely disappear into the local populance.” (Beatty, 119)
“…[I] saw a store owner spray-paint BLACK......
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