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Lily Discrimination Quotes

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Throughout her journey, Lily discovers the difficulty of dealing with discrimination through personal exposure of prejudice towards her. When Lily Overhears June and August Boatwright talking, Lily understands that the reason June is cruel towards her is due to Lily’s skin color being white. Lily is befuddled as she states, “I hadn't known this was possible—to reject people for being white” (Kidd 87). This was Lily’s first time experiencing racism, personally, as the racism of black people toward white people. The experience of being rejected as a result of her skin color angers Lily as she is a person with feelings, not a color. Lily’s negative encounter strengthened her compassion for others who are regularly the targets of bigotry. At the point when …show more content…

A blur passed before me. A moving wave of color. I am not one of you, I thought” (Kidd 112). For that time, Lily felt completely alienated like she did not belong, which was greatly influenced by June's unfriendly behavior towards her for being different. Just as Lily learns to be more tolerant of others, she receives the same treatment in return. When the meeting with Sugar-Girl takes place, Sugar-Girl constantly makes fun of some foolishness going on after the Civil Rights Act was passed without being cautious as she is speaking with a white person in the room. Lily is finally accepted as she explains her observation, “But I will tell you this secret thing, which not one of them saw, not even August, the thing that brought me the most cause for gladness. It was how Sugar-Girl said what she did like I was truly one of them. Not one person in the room said, Sugar-Girl, really, talking about white people like that and we have a white person present. They didn't even think of me being different” (Kidd 199). To Lily, this moment indicates that Sugar-Girl sees Lily as part of her circle, rather than a member of the group she was

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