Hello, internet! My name is Aladdin, and I’ll be your writer for today. I just got back from golf, and my arms really hurt. So this is going to be a short post.
In Black Boy, Richard Wright has a fairly strict set of morals. Not in that he can do this, can’t do that, must do this on Sundays, but in that he can look at something he or someone else has done and identify it as either “right” or “wrong”. Even when he was a little boy he had a very good idea of what was, in his mind, OK, and what was NOT OK. I think he even mentions, at one point, that he thought it was OK for a child to be beaten by a parent if the child has done something wrong warranting of punishment, but it is not kosher for a distant family member to randomly beat a child who, as far as he is aware, hasn’t done anything wrong.
Richard learned these morals simply through his life experiences, mostly on the street and with his family, primarily his mom. This is in a bit of a kerfuffle with what Feldman is saying. Feldman is asserting that morals are learned through a school/church environment, and only in a school/church environment can morals be learned. Richard learned next to nothing worthwhile in his school/church environment.
Ow. I’m done for tonight.
Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828.
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