How does Barack identify as a black man in Hawaii?
Barack identifies himself as a "black man" by saying that him and his friends that are also black are being treated like human beings by the white people that live in Hawaii. When he takes two of his friends Scott and Jeff to a party where it is all blacks the both of them wanted to leave after being there for a while. The reason for them wanted to leave is probably because they felt like that they were in the minority and they now know what it is like to be in the minority. The to of them probably feel bad for what has happened in the past to the slaves. When one of his aqnd Rays friends came up to him and Ray one day while they were sitting outside no the campus of a Hawaiian University Barack shued him away.
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I think that Barack has never felt that he has "belonged" anywhere. In high school he starts to understand what it is like to be a black man. I do agree with you that Barack's two white friends probably felt uncomfortable as minorities.
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