Father’s comment during the incident around the library certainly has truthfulness to Coalhouse’s situation. First off I would say that according to Father, Coalhouse always had it coming for him. From the moment they met Father saw that Coalhouse was not the typical black man of the time, who’s considered to be lesser of a human than the whites, who didn’t get to have the privileges whites had. Coalhouse always behaved in ways that certainly weren’t expected from a black man in the early 20th century to behave. Even when father asked him to play a “coon” song he refused, knowing it was offensive to him. So when Coalhouse discovered his car in a state of wreckage he wanted some justice, knowing if it was the car of a white man the police would