You taste injustice, even if its fictional, really taste it,it has a way of doing that. Sometimes, you can never put the shoe on the other foot. We cant go back in time and know what it was like to be a black person then. Even today, when things are supposed to be so much better, not one of you can understand what its like to be black, to live with the knowledge of what happened to your ancestry and still face injustice. But that book makes us taste it and, reading it, we know how bitter that taste is and we know we dont like it. But that bitter wakes you up, and when you wake up, you open your mind to things in this world, you make yourself think. Then youll decide you dont like the taste of injustice, not for you and not for anyone, and youll understand that even though all the battles cant be won, that doesnt mean you wont fight.
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