Status Updates From The Incredibly Human Henson...

Maybe it’s cause I’m not from the South, but this feels…incredibly heavy handed. I also think the family legacies that prevent them from being messed with feel like the author not wanting to show the MC experiencing more racism.

Like…the school is changing the lunch budget so everyone can eat BUT him because he left a football game. It’s not really about the inciting incident.

“I don’t see anything but people who were born with indisputable inalienable rights, which include the ability to demand anything and everything possible from the likes of yourself.”

Sounds about white 🙄 they can demand he play, but he can’t demand they respect his privacy during a difficult time

“But the townsfolk never had a Black athlete to hang their hats on like other Mississippi towns, a ‘Negro’ of their own…if they could, they’d probably stamp him with a charring GM brand across his chest, the same as the would for cattle or hogs.”