Born a Crime

(Chris Devlin) #1

but I wasn’t them. I couldn’t go
over there doing my fake gangster
shit and have them discover I was a
fraud. No, no, no. That game was
over, my friend. The last thing I
needed was colored gangsters up
against me.


But then what if I went to the
black corner? I know that I’m black
and I identify as black, but I’m not a
black person on the face of it, so
would the black guys understand
why I was walking over? And what
kind of shit would I start by going
there? Because going to the black
corner as a perceived colored
person might piss off the colored

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