The narrator disliked this particular role, but filled it. The narrator also came to take his father’s place in many ways, for his father was sought by members of the surrounding community of Dickens as the “Nigger Whisperer”, a man who could talk sense into people and help them make better choices. The narrator came to inherit his father’s house and two acres of land, which he continued to farm as his father did. Years later, the narrator’s father is shot attempting to run from the police after shouting at them during a bust on the sidewalk. Instead of giving in, the narrator ran down the block to use the bathroom. He was charged the “black” price of $1.50 rather than the regular price of seven cents. At a white-run gas station, the narrator had asked to use the restroom, but he was told he had to purchase something first. He also believed that not taking advantage of opportunity was the only thing holding back black people.The narrator himself had only experienced direct racism once. Despite his father’s arguments about racism, the narrator believed that there was no real widespread racism anymore. For example, he would line the narrator’s crib with toy police cars and Richard Nixon campaign buttons while firing a gun and shouting “Nigger, go back to Africa!” Since the narrator’s father saw racism all around him, he decided to home school his son rather than have him attend white-run public schools.

The father saw the narrator as a social experiment rather than a son. The narrator, a resident of Dickens, California, was born to a single father who was a sociology professor. The narrator recounts to the Supreme Court the events that brought him to the present time. The book revolves around the unnamed, black narrator who is coming before the Supreme Court on charges of slave holding and re-instituting segregation. The Sellout, by Paul Beatty, is an African-American novel of satire on race relations in the United States.

The sellout by paul beatty