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The page remembers school racism and treats it as something ordinary enough to be discussed, but terrible enough to leave the speaker asking how things got this bad.

It reads like a compressed social memory. The short lines do not analyze the situation in abstract terms; they present it as a lived conversation, where prejudice is folded into daily life and only afterward recognized for how damaged it is.

A six-line scrap of remembered talk, rendered in restless capitals: 'AND I said, how about / Fighting About A / Gotton down color / IN high school, AND / said, YEA, how CAN / HAVE got this BAD'. The clipped, half-grammatical exchange enacts the slide from a casual proposition to fighting over race, ending on a dumbfounded recognition of how far things have fallen. The scattered uppercase ('AND', 'Fighting About A', 'IN', 'YEA', 'CAN', 'HAVE', 'BAD') is preserved as the scan's emphasis.