The story begins with Julian and his mother taking their regular trip downtown to the YMCA. Julian is often embarrassed by his mother's feelings toward Blacks; she refers to them as the lower class and reminisces of life on the plantation in the south. Julian takes every opportunity of opposing her views because he finds her thoughtless remarks annoying. He often dreams of holding conversations with "distinguished-looking blacks" and contemplates bringing one home as lover. Despite his urges toward Blacks, the

black women sitting next to him on the bus annoys him. By this encounter, it clear that Julian himself has not fully embraced multiculturalism despite how much he wants to.

Julian has a lot to offer to his mother in how the new world is changing, and his mother can teach him the history racism. However because both are so stuck in their ways, they don't to listen to each other and take learning experiences from each other. At the end when the women knocks Julian's mother down, he realizes how helpless his mother is. In her dying moments she can only envision her childhood days on the plantation oblivious to world she currently lives in. Julian at that time expresses a love for his mother he'd never displayed in the past.

Evidence that times have change is given by the fact that the colored woman sitting on the bus was wearing the same hat Julian'

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Approximate Word count = 578
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)