In my book, a character has to at least have our sympathy in order to carry a book forward. I hate Buk for these lines, and I'm just wondering what you all think. If there are any arguments to him being a sympathetic character it ends here. The man manages to degrade not only black people, but women as well. Sure I know Buk might have been speaking for white men at his time, but this is way too racist. He says, "Cunt! You set this up, didn't you? You'd let this monkey kill me for the lousy 4 or 5 hundred bucks in my wallet!" If y0u are a Buk fan, I don't know how you will defend this. (But don't get me wrong, I have read this entire novel). I loved this book up until the point in which he started saying this shit that pissed me off and made me skip pages till the end. What polarizes me from Bukowski's work is his use of the word monkey on page 116 of Post Office. Some consider me a black emo, although I don't even know what that means and I think the term is stupid to begin with. I've been raised in my culture to listen to Led Zeppelin, the Foo Fighters, and Metallica, and I've been fine growing up with my white friends. I'm black, but I listen to rock as hard as any other white guy I know.
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