In Lawrence Otis Graham’s “The Black Table,” the author recounts his childhood memories in an angry tone. Following the author’s visit to his junior high school, he wrote the article for the New York Times. Graham writes about his choice that he made growing up to, “never consider sitting at the black table” (Graham 1). He hated that the blacks separated themselves from the rest of the school by sitting at a private table during lunch. Graham demonstrates two incidents when he, as a black, was discriminated against by whites. Why would the blacks discriminate against themselves by choice? After visiting his school, he was surprised that years later, the black table was still there. Graham says, “Yet, I can’t get over the fact that the