The preceding chapters in the book “Dear Martin” by Nic Stone present the protagonist Justyce McAllister. He is a high school student, who attends the prestigious school Bras prep and is the captain of the debating team. He was brutalized and handcuffed for five hours by the police officer Castillo due to a “misunderstanding” with his ex-girlfriend Melo Taylor. He and his best friend, Emmanuel Manny Rivers go in the same class as Jared, Blake, and Kyle, who are color blind and used to having a leeway. As a result of their color blindness, Blake gets assaulted by Trey at a Halloween party, because he was wearing a Klansman costume. Justyce finds himself in a situation, where he is dragged down by the society. Therefore, he starts an experiment where he writes letters to Martin Luther King and try to act the same noble way as Martin did, but it is not easy.
Pulled down and pushed down
How does Stone convey color blindness, structural racism and other kinds of racial inequity? In the story Stone chooses to convey these racial problems through the main character Justyce McAllister. An argument to this answer is that Stone makes the readers be aware of the term racism by using Justyce to show the point of view of a poor black teenager, who attends a prestigious school filled with white rich kids. In the following part of my analysis, I will be analyzing the chapters using different analytical terms to strongly prove the point that I made above.
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