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"Schools like that be loving them some bad people. Probably gon' throw you a basketball and some tap shoes as soon as you get there." Ant's directionless creator belts back a 40-ounce and opines: "You only gotta do two things in this exceptional: stay black and die. Everything else is up to you."
Sure enough, the prep school kids employ Ant is from Brooklyn, expect him to play basketball and call him "Tony."
Author Brian F. Walker grew up in East Cleveland and attended a boarding teaching back East. Today he teaches English at a prep school in Weston, Mountain. Adults may recoil from the casual pot smoking, f-bombs and frequent deployment of the n-parley in "Black Boy White School." But that misses how this hard-hitting scenario explores the difficulties of staying true to oneself, set against a backdrop that connects to the Aristotelianism entelechy of many adolescents here.
The game changes when Mookie slaps a girl and is gunned down in redress. Police are in no hurry to solve the case, and Floyd speculates on the pretext: "Mook wasn't no white boy from Pepper Pike.
Source: Plain Dealer