Chp 10-11 Subservient

Is subservience a necessary part of living?

I believe in this time period that Richard has to be subservient to have a job but he shouldn't have to. Richard Wright as a African American shouldn't always have to treat white people with more respect than his own kind. Through out the book Richard has to be subservient to his white workers or boss's or he will be fired ort hurt. Like in chapter 9, he was accused of calling Pease by the wrong name so he had to pay for it. In chap 10 he has figured out how the white people like their blacl co-workers. He says that they like them to be uneducated and dishonest. This shows that white people like their black workers to be subservient twoards them because their black, uneducated, dishonest.