Throughout history, racial prejudice has always been a factor in our everyday lives, either on the giving or receiving end. Since I was about seven years old, my mother has spoken to me about racial prejudice and how it operated when she was growing up. It is similar to the way it operates in this story. In the short story "The Sky is Gray" written by Ernest Gaines, the author tells a story about a boy being raised in a racist society and how he coped with it. .
In "The Sky is Gray", racial prejudice operates in the typically unfair and organized manner. Decades ago, blacks always had to sit in the back of the bus while the whites sat in the front. Skin color was and continues to be an unfair disadvantage. It is appalling that a country whose basic tenet is freedom organized a system of racial segregation. Each race had to shop in different stores. Black people were limited in their choices for medical care while white people had more choices available to them. This is part of James dilemma. .
In this book, as in the real world, racial prejudice operates as a form of social control. Throughout this story we find examples of the white man limiting the opportunities of black people. .
We encounter a conversation that goes on between the main character James, a young black boy, and a white preacher. The preacher and the student possess opposing views on prejudice. They each argue about whether or not God exists. The boy disagrees with the preacher and tells him, "Show me one reason to believe in the existence of a God". The preacher answers back "My heart tells me". The boy mocks the preacher and explains it's not what his heart told him, but rather what the white man told him. James has a different reaction to prejudice. He says "don't believe what the white man tells you," yet the preacher maintains this unfairness as being God's will and proceeds to slap the student. .
Although James is a child, it hardly seems as if he enjoys being one.
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We only realise what colour means in our life on a grey wintry day, when the sun does not shine and when all around us is cold. Here we stop to think what the moon must look like in all its monotony of grey or how tiring it would be to live on Mars with its constant red colour. ... Just think how happy we are when we see a rainbow I the skies. All those colours make up for the greyness of winter skies. ...
