Macon Is A Gray-Area Character
Throughout the semester we’ve talked several times about questionable heroes and antiheroes (Anse in particular comes to mind) and while they’ve been interesting discussions, I usually had a pretty set opinion on the character – I stand by the fact that Anse was a terrible person who wrongfully screwed over his children. However, as we read Angry Black White Boy, I struggled to place Macon into a clean category in my brain, whether I liked him or not, whether I agreed with him or not. Since I like to be able to fit characters into black and white categories in my brain, this was something that I went back and forth on throughout the book. Of course, my liberal and activist background of growing up in Urbana, going to Uni, and the general social and political climate of today made me want to agree with Macon. Many of the points that he made were good and common in today’s political climate. He was well educated on the issues that black people