"I've experienced direct discrimination based on race only once in my life. One day I foolishly said to my father that there was no racism in America. Only equal opportunity that black people kick aside because we don't want to take responsibility for ourselves."
So says Paul Beatty's narrator Me, prompting his dad to take him on a road trip that involves the "reckless eyeballing" of white women in "a nameless Mississippi town that was nothing more than a dusty intersection of searing heat, crows, cotton fields and, judging by the excited look of anticipation on my father's face, unadulterated racism."