After Griffin’s family moves to Mexico to escape the threats they’ve received as a result of his project, Griffin stays in Texas to empty out his parents’ home. To do this, he hires a young boy to help him, and as they work, the child—who is black—says “revealing” things about what it’s like to grow up as an African American in a racist society. Whereas Griffin spent about a month of his life trying to understand the African American experience, it is simply this boy’s constant reality, as society essentially conditions him to expect hatred from white people. Indeed, he…