barry grew up in a very dysfunctional family...moved around alot...had two different "fathers"...idiots for grandparents and mother....probably had no close friends....and to have a friendship forced on him by his grandparents and mother of frank marshall davis, who is alleged now to have been a pervert..
so think about it...you have no real father, your mother keeps shacking up with various men, you move too much to really become attached to anyone, yet the one person that is forced on you...Davis...is a pervert and a communist...
if young barry had suffered at the hands of Davis...emotionally or even physically....who would he blame subconciously?
his white mother and white grandparents for not protecting him....
thats all I am guessing....
but it would explain barry ...cold, hateful, bitter, with sexual identity issues, punitive, wanting to get "even" with others who so much as speak against him....
I believe he is full of hate as well.
Why would you write an entire book about a father that abandoned him after perhaps 6 months? It is also noteworthy that neither book has anything about his mother.
The ‘White folks’ greed’ comment is telling, int hat it reflects perhaps a deeply seated belief that black people have not been protected by the white culture which has exploited them. Barry’s economic plans to ‘spread the wealth around’ and his ‘social army equal to the military’ are reflections of such feelings.