Together the two of them have two sons. Raising them, Irene made a choice to protect them fro th racism in the world. She wanted to have a perfect family. When they were sitting down for dinner one night, Ted, on of their sons asked, “Dad, why do they only lynch coloured people?” with Brian’s reply, “ because they hate them son.” (102) Irene was furious. She spent her entire time as a mother keeping racism out of her children’s lives. When dinner finished and the kids went upstairs, Irene made this comment to Brian, “ I do wish that you wouldn’t talk about lynching before Ted and Junior[...] there’ll be time for them to learn about such horrible things when they’re older.” Brian was infuriated and can’t understand why Irene doesn’t want the kids to know. He thought that they should know the struggles in the world at a young age. This was Brian’s view on
Together the two of them have two sons. Raising them, Irene made a choice to protect them fro th racism in the world. She wanted to have a perfect family. When they were sitting down for dinner one night, Ted, on of their sons asked, “Dad, why do they only lynch coloured people?” with Brian’s reply, “ because they hate them son.” (102) Irene was furious. She spent her entire time as a mother keeping racism out of her children’s lives. When dinner finished and the kids went upstairs, Irene made this comment to Brian, “ I do wish that you wouldn’t talk about lynching before Ted and Junior[...] there’ll be time for them to learn about such horrible things when they’re older.” Brian was infuriated and can’t understand why Irene doesn’t want the kids to know. He thought that they should know the struggles in the world at a young age. This was Brian’s view on