Keep This Nigger Boy Running Analysis

In the beginning, the narrator is telling us about the speech he gave at his high school that caught the eye of the white superintendent, who invited him to speak it at a local hotel. At the hotel, he was gathered into a blindfolded boxing match and then forced to watch a naked white woman dance. After that, he read his speech and received his prize: a briefcase with a scholarship to the college for Negroes in it. That night he dreamed of his dead grandfather and he was told to open the briefcase. In the briefcase was a paper that said, “Keep This Nigger Boy Running,” this was what blinded him from the rest of the world. The narrator went to college, where he soon got expelled and was sent back to New York City. While working at his new factory