When I was around nine or ten I wrote a play
which was directed by a young, white
schoolteacher, a woman who ... decided to
take me to see what she somewhat tactlessly
referred to as "real" plays. Theater-going was
forbidden in our house, but, with the really
cruel intuitiveness of a child, I suspected that
the color of this woman's skin would carry the
day for me. When, at school, she suggested
taking me to the theater, I did not, as I might
What is the problem in this passage?
O Baldwin's father won't agree to let him go to a
play with a white schoolteacher.
O Baldwin's teacher offends Baldwin by
suggesting his play isn't a "real" play.