Blog 5

The novels Incognegro and Monster compare to each other because they both demonstrate race priviledge. In Monster, Steve is a young Afican American boy who is on trial for accomplicing to a robbery homicide. In this novel, it just shows that even if Steve was just going to the drugstore for some mints, that he has been accused of committing a crime he did not participate in. This demonstrates priviledge because it would be easier to remember the perpetrator if he was colored than if he was white. In Incognegro, it was a lot simpler to notice priviledge because the entire novel is based off of white priviledge in the South. If a white person claimed they were hurt or killed by black person ( this claim can be false), then the black person they have accused would be avenged even if they are innocent. People in the South, took longer to abolish slavery, and were never ashamed to innocently accuse a black person for a crime. In Incognegro, Zane Pinchback's brother was accused of murdering his white girlfriend. The novel resulted in his girlfriend being alive, and the dead white girl was the sheriff's deputy. In the end, the sheriff new all along that Zane's brother was being held innocently, but he never spoke a word of his innocence becuase people in the South forced themselves to believe that colored people were not human and that white people were the best.