Although Richard has stubbornly fought against accepting the standards of Jim Crow racism, he approaches his final conversation with his boss as someone who is very afraid to tell the truth about wanting a better for future for himself. Why would Richard adopt this point of approach seeing that he has openly advocated wanting to make personal progress at every turn in his life? Explain your response in two paragraphs.

Read the excerpt from the land. of my brothers, i was closest with robert. i suppose, in part, being the same year's children made us close, but there were other things too. we had been together practically since birth, and we always took care of each other. when i got into trouble, robert was there to pull me out of it if he could, or at least to see me through it, and i did the same for him. the passage provides evidence of why paul and robert have physical conflicts. paul and robert avoid social conflicts. paul is the least influenced by robert. paul is motivated to ask robert for .