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The narrator was walking to the tram line to board a tram car.
On the way he saw a white boy and a black boy playing an unusual game.
The white was around four and the other probably five.
The game they played pained the narrator because the white boy was giving orders to the black boy who obeyed him like a slave.
The narrator felt bad. Jamaicans are black but slavery was long abolished. How can it be possible that a white boy ordered his playmate?
Why did the black boy obey him? That means slavery is still here, in the minds of people, however small they are. The narrator felt sorry for his race.
Next evening the narrator happened to pass by the same way and saw the two boys there, as usual, playing another game.
This time the narrator could not believe what he saw! The black boy was giving orders and the white obeyed him!
The narrator’s gloom disappeared. He felt alright – it was just a game that children played. There was nothing about racism.
There was a white man standing at the gate, watching the children play.
The narrator thought that the white man was a passerby.
“He must be wondering about a black boy giving orders to a white,” narrator thought.
He went to the man and explained that the children were playing a mere game and there was nothing regarding racism.
The man smiled and informed that the two boys were his sons.
Because he married a black Jamaican woman, their sons were black and white.