The narrator’s father is shot and killed by police officers as he confronts them, shouting during an arrest. However, despite this upbringing, the narrator doesn’t believe racism is much of a problem in the modern world, although he does remember one incident where he believes he was charged a different price for a soda simply because of his skin color. Believing the whole world is essentially racist, his father home-schooled his son. He believes his father saw him as an experiment instead of a person, often exposing his son to racial epithets and conservative white political rhetoric long before the boy could comprehend. He tells the story of how he ended up here. He has been charged with holding slaves and attempting to bring back racial segregation. the United States of America because his last name is Me. prior to his court date, then mentions that his case is Me vs. He reflects on his day of tourism in Washington D.C. The book opens with a prologue in which the narrator claims he has never stolen anything, which he believes might surprise the reader because he is a black man, before revealing he is handcuffed and in the Supreme Court of the United States. Considered satirical despite the author’s denials, The Sellout (2015), a novel by Paul Beatty, explores modern issues of race and racism through a shocking and often comical premise.
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