During my visit to my grandmother's house a sense of two races was born in me with a sharp concreteness that would never die until I was dead” (Wright 75). This is significant because this is basically his first personal experience regarding segregation when he sees two lines of people separating the whites from the blacks. When Richard mentions concreteness it is assumed that this experience at the Arkansas train station is always part of his memory, this is the first time he physically sees what is happening. Melton notes that blacks behaved differently than whites, “Blacks who had to enter our house, for whatever reason, entered through the back door. Unless employed as servants, black men conducted business with my father or mother on the back porch or, on rare occasions, in the kitchen” (McLaurin 13). This shows that Melton questioned the way blacks acted and learned as whites, the society of that time was indirectly sending the message that whites were superior. Likewise, Richard, even though he was black, was taught to despise a certain group of people. All of us blacks who lived in the neighborhood hated the Jews, not because they were there