Rudy's Story Of Rudy: A Hateful Man

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Rudy shows us that he is a hateful man. In 1942, he was beaten up by four policemen while running around as a zoot-suiter in his teens. He was left with a fractured eardrum and couldn’t hear from both ears. His Uncle Abraham told him, “That to hate is to waste energy and you mess with man upstairs” (Smith 3). Rudy says, “But I had an insane hatred for white policemen” (Smith 3). After being beaten up by the white police officers, he developed his hate towards the policemen even though he doesn’t like the feeling of hating. Not only was he a hateful man, but he was also respectful. He tells us that he still has that prejudice against white people. But then he says, “I’m not racist! But I have white friends, though. ‘I don’t even see them