Revolt of the Evil Fairies.

     Revolt of the Evil Fairies by Ted Poston is a perfect example of how far racism can go. In the Booker T. Washington grammar school for colored people, light skins still get priority over dark skins. A forceful example of this is Ted's memory that "a major part of the school play was picking the good and bad fairies, and strangely enough the good fairies always had light complexions while the bad fairies always wore black costumes and were dark skinned."  Another way he shows the prejudiced society is that the white people always sat in front and the blacks in the back, and the people with enough money got box seats.  The teachers, of course, planned it this way knowing it would please the whites. A different piece of evidence of  racism is that only the light skinned African Americans got good jobs, such as becoming a doctor, artist, or business man.
   

     Even though he tried very hard to become the lead role of Prince Charming because his crush was playing sleeping beauty, a "Yaller" (a very, very light skinned African American) named Leonardius (who by coincidence also liked that girl) got the role. This led to a feud. Eventually, during the performance of the school play things got out of hand when Leonardius got away with hitting Ted, in an act of revenge Ted struck out at Leonardius and then everybody started beating each other up.

     I personally enjoyed this story because it was very emotional and true (in my opinion) and in the end it was very funny to me. It showed what troubles African Americans were going through in their own public. So all in all I think it passes by as a pretty good story.