Learn from others’ experience
Max’s love life didn’t look too promising. His latest girlfriend broke up with him after he had “bought her a new outfit and paid the rent on a three-room apartment.” According to Max, she was “stuck on her color.” That was “the matter with her!” That was the first irony, for Max Disher was as stuck on his skin color as his ex-girlfriend Minnie. He liked to make assumptions about other people based on their skin color. Max decided to try to find a black girlfriend, because one could “trust a black gal.” The irony was that he had “never had one” and couldn’t know it.
A choice
Dr. Crookman’s invention was going to change lives of millions of people in the USA. Black people could become “white at last.” “Gone was the smooth brown complexion.” “Gone were slightly full lips and Ethiopian nose.” So did “the nappy hair” that they “straightened so meticulously” since “kink-no-more lotions first wrenched Aframericans from tyranny and torture of the comb.” The irony was that black people could just ignore “kink-no-more lotions” and combs. It was not like that they couldn’t decide. The whole idea about tyranny sounded rather strangely. Curly or kinky hair is something that people are born with; there is nothing wrong with either trait.
