This chapter featured in Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley is analyzed in five pages. Two other sources are cited in the bibliography.
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man, an ex-convict who is working towards making his life better in some respects. But, as an African American and an ex-convict this task is not a simple one. Through
his journeys we can see many different ways of examining the issue of race. For example, we can see the social realities that often put the African American race in
a social position where violence and poverty is their only known environment. We see how some African Americans are automatically categorized by their skin, or by their language. We are
provided with examples of how the world of the white man is incredibly removed from the world of the black man. In essence, there are many racial conditions and realities
that can be examined in Mosleys book. In the following paper we examine the chapter titled "Equal Opportunity" and discuss how the main character was immediately classified due to his
speech and his lack of social training, realities which clearly put him into a cultural and racial class. Equal Opportunity Our introduction into this particular chapter brings us
an environment that is clearly one of wealth and one that belongs to the white man. Mosleys chapter begins as Socrates enters the store: "Bounty Supermarket was on Venice Boulevard,
miles and miles from Socrates home. He gaped at the glittering palace as he strode across the hot asphalt parking lot" (NA). The description goes on as Socrates notes the
food going into baskets, and the obvious wealth that surrounds him, despite the fact that all of the baggers and checkers seem to be black. We gain an understanding of
his world when he notices that "Dozens of tens and twenties, in between credit cards and bank cards, went back and forth over the counters. Very few customers used coupons.