Choosing this passage of growth and transformation, Griffin returns to his former existence; sadder, but wiser, and retells what he’s saw, and learned, to a singularly unified audience, which offers a benefit of him being this established writer, and taking hold of his privilege to be used to help people. Abiding to his anticipation, though, of outcry, the final reception is decidedly mixed, and enacted by racial lines. To some, he’d been taken up with bravery and compassion where he hadn’t been otherwise asked to do so (much like his writer friend, P.D. East, who’d forsaken his status among other whites, in order to voice opposition against the evils of racism). Meanwhile, it’s particularly other whites, who think Griffin condemned a “race
