In the pages of 120 through 190 we see more events that Piri is encoutering. He sells drugs so that he is capable of earings some kind of money for himself. He was still having issues with the white nd feleing as if he will only feel like he belongs is in his barrio. But even though he disliked the "paddys" he still liked girls and it didnt matter what color they were. especaially when it come to his girlfriend, Trina. But before all of that Piri and his friend Brew go on down South to see how life would be for them down there and when telling this to his parens,Piri expresses how he feels. He tells his family how he feels as if hes the black sheep of the family because of the color of skin that he is. On thier trip down South they see how its harder down their when it comes to race than what it was in Harlem. Piri faces racisim while entering a restraunt and is told to leave the place. As well on the ship that he's working for when he makes his journey down South.
I think its kinda wrong that he has o sell drugs just o earn money. But i understand where he's comming from. Being a different reace, or being precieved as a black person when he's puerto rican so it makes it harder for him to get a ob, and he has to do what he can to at least earn some money. And him finally telling his family how he really feels makes it seem like he has some weigh off of his shoulder. Making the readers see why he is the way he is. And witht he girls it was as if he didnt mind what colors girls were to him, because he just saw them for what they were for and not what color they were. Like whe it came to Trina, it does puzzle us on why he's with a white girl when he himself dislieks whites. But it shows us that maybe Piri is starting to ease into the whole racism thing.
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It's true; why does Piri become relaxed about color when it comes to women, but not so when it comes to his own racial identity and that of his family? At one point, he says to himself when he is Down South that "pussy is the same in every color," so is he using women as a way to secure his own masculinity. That seems to be what one of our artciles (by Sanchez) seems to propose. Of course, there is always the issue of "punks" and "faggots" who Piri also tends to ridicule but who nevertheless show him another way to be--something beyond the either/or racial model in America that he seems to be in desparate need for...Food for thought
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