I was so impressed with this sentence: “Clean and sanitary as the drugstore was, I preferred the ghetto (though we didn’t call it that then). There, at lease, we had the freedom to roam all over our stretch of black territory and could shuck our feeling of enforced inferiority as soon as we were on common ground. This is paraphrased to the following: Even though the drugstore was clean and hygienic, he would like …showed first 75 words of 284 total…

…showed last 75 words of 284 total…area. How much did he felt so uncomfortable in the drugstore and how come was he supposed to want to live in the slum? I hit upon the first sentence “I am black” and Martin Luther King’s speech. Martin Luther King cried several times “I have dream”. I feel so sad when I speculate what dream James Thomas Jackson had – He wanted the black to get freedom in anywhere including clean place like drugstore.