Miss Carriage studied him.
“I’m surprised you haven’t been exiled yet,” she said.
“People have tried,” Roger told her. “Some point to me and say they aren’t
racist because I’m here. Others treat me like a
boogeyman and report me every other day. You learn to live with it.”
“So why help?” Miss Carriage asked. “It won’t do any good.”
“We help because it’s the right thing to do,” Roger said. “We can’t only
do good when we know what the outcome will be.”