This basically amplifies my point of doing everything you can to survive in this terrible environment. He gets kicked in the stomach just for getting a quarter. “My ass is hard and money is tight.” (end of chapter 12) At what point does a person come to violate self-ethics and morals, and go through with it just to survive. How far are you willing to go until you break? There is a delicate bond between white people and white people, as humans we have limits on how much we can handle mentally and physically. We can see from this example that Shorty is willing to degrade himself to get a quarter for every kick. Shorty and Richard go off on a tangent about how to avoid being dehumanized and do something else. Richard offers to help but Shorty's stubbornness prevents him from paying attention to the information Richard provides. But in Shorty's remarks, he states that he is lazy to do anything and will not change the way he earns money. Readers recognize that Shorty has accepted the fact that he is trapped in white power's web of inferiority; sees that there is no way out of this terrible