Bog Group D - Kyle

Then length of this short story sort of scared me, too. However, once I started reading the story and I found out what was going on I could not get myself to stop reading until I had finished the whole story. The ending did shock me. Today, when we think of racism, one of the first examples that comes to mind is white/black racism. However, at the end of "The Nig in Me" the racism that does exist exists between the different sub groups of the African community. In this short story, a plaque is released upon society that is 100% fatal to anybody that does not have at least 12.5% African Negro blood running through their veins, leaving only people with some type of African heritage alive n the end.

I found it interesting how the whole of society has seemed to become much more centralized around business, such that so one corporation even has its own business-state. Most forms of punishment mentioned within this short story had something to do with negatively affecting an individual's ability to work. These punishments include banning the individual from working temporarily by putting them on an unemployment cycle as well as a permanent expulsion from the work force. Citizens that have been expelled from the work force had even created their own illegal underground labor force just so they could scrape together enough to provide a means of continuing their existence.