Quote

Quote from the book

In the book it says “As far as Immigration is concerned, there are many things that are illegal and many that are gray, and by ‘gray’ I mean the things that are illegal but which the government doesn’t want to spend time worrying about. You understand me, abi? My advice to someone like you is to always stay close to the gray area and keep yourself and your family safe. Stay away from any place where you can run into police—that’s the advice I give to you and to all young black men in this country. The police is for the protection of white people, my brother. Maybe black women and black children sometimes, but not black men. Never black men. Black men and police are palm oil and water. You understand me, eh?” (behold the dreamers). This quote is important because it shows the struggles of immigration and how Black people are treated. This extremely important today with everything that is going on.  Also this quote is important in the book because he needs to get to America and he cant get in trouble other weise he won’t be able to make it here. So this is good advice he got in the book.