The Narrator has been invited to read his speech at a high end Hotel. He is brought their expected to impress the white audience with his intelligence. Instead he is used for the white mens entertainment. His grandfather had told him that if he were to continue to conform to the white mans racial prejudice that nothing would ever change. The narrator had thought for a second that they would actually care to listen to his ideas. He is no more to them than a comedy show. The author used the grandfather as a way to show that racial prejudice will never change if someone doesn't take a stand. For example Collin Kaepernick a quarterback in the NFL lost millions of dollars and his job taking a stand for what he believes in. The narrator thinking