Mr. Daltons’, a tall and white-haired employer of Bigger, is a vocal supporter of socioeconomic uplift of colored races; however, he has little, if any, understanding of the implications and manifestations of racism and its correlation with the abject poverty of the subservient Afro Americans. In the courtroom, Mr. Dalton states that “whatever Bigger has done, it’s not going to affect my relationship with Negros, and today I have sent a dozen ping-pong tables to the South-Side Boy’s Club” (NS, 291) on which Max asserts with a mixture of surprise and shock, “even after losing your daughter, you are going in the same direction” (NS, 291). Thus, the deleterious
Mr. Daltons’, a tall and white-haired employer of Bigger, is a vocal supporter of socioeconomic uplift of colored races; however, he has little, if any, understanding of the implications and manifestations of racism and its correlation with the abject poverty of the subservient Afro Americans. In the courtroom, Mr. Dalton states that “whatever Bigger has done, it’s not going to affect my relationship with Negros, and today I have sent a dozen ping-pong tables to the South-Side Boy’s Club” (NS, 291) on which Max asserts with a mixture of surprise and shock, “even after losing your daughter, you are going in the same direction” (NS, 291). Thus, the deleterious