Though I have enjoyed reading Dear Marcus, I believe that telling his story was more of a way for him to appease his pain rather than to be uplifting. Throughout the majority of the story, Jerome is very loathe some and despondent. This is very understandable due to his condition. The fact that he named the man who crippled him spoke volumes to me. He assumed that the man who shot him was black. Black on black crime undoubtedly exists but the media shows us too many examples of black people harming one another, instead of showing our many shades of positivity. In my mind this is done deliberately. I believe that Jerome and maybe even Marcus were oblivious victims of post hypnotic suggestion. They saw the same themes reiterated constantly and once those ideas become integrated into our psyche it begins to shape and affect how we think. Jerome is a prime example of a programmed individual who was predisposed to assume the worst of his people.
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