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“I don’t want you to make a career out of running away,” his father said, “but because you’re a Negro, you’re apt to be put upon a good deal. Do you know what I mean?” “Yes, Daddy,” Mike said, thinking of Bob Gautier at school, who had“I don’t want you to make a career out of running away,” his father said, “but because you’re a Negro, you’re apt to be put upon a good deal. Do you know what I mean?” “Yes, Daddy,” Mike said, thinking of Bob Gautier at school, who had tried to explain to Mike that nigger could not be a bad word, because his father used it all the time. In fact, Bob told Mike earnestly, it was a good word. When a fighter on the Friday Night Fights took a bad beating and managed to stay on his feet, his daddy said, “His head is as hard as a nigger’s,” and when someone was really putting out at his work (which, for Mr. Gautier, was Star Beef in town), his daddy said, “That man works like a nigger.” “And my daddy is just as much a Christian as your daddy,” Bob had finished. Mike remembered that, looking at Bob Gautier’s white earnest pinched face, surrounded by the mangy fur of his handmedown snowsuit-hood, he had felt not anger but a terrible sadness that made him feel like crying. He had seen honesty and good intent in Bob’s face, but what he had felt was loneliness, distance, a great whistling emptiness between himself and the other boy....more