Richard Wright

In one of the parenthesis he describes how in the south one was certain that there were hated.  He described how Shorty would offer to be kicked by the white men for money.  In chicao he is experiencing a whole different type of racism, because he does not know if people are racist or not because he is ignored like an object.  Richard comments that he now thinks that being kicked is better that the uncertainty of not knowing what people are thinking.  He would rather know where he stood in the world even if he was being taken advantage of than not know where he sands in society.  This is similar to what Linda felt in the book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.  They both thought that the north would be this place where racism wasn't an issue.  But, they were both only half true in there assumptions.  They both found that when they moved to the north that there was no explicit racism one could see, but there was a great deal of indifference.  People didn't pay attention to them at all, and this made them feel uneasy because they didn't know how people felt or how to act.