Yes, I do, very much so. Wright was simply trying to share with the audience his experience with school,whether it be an educated one that created an articulate well spoken student or an uneducated inadequate one, he wanted to give his speech to show what the school made of him, and the principal, the black principal, was only considering the opinions of the white audience members. This goes to show that not only are the black students under the control of the white superiority, but also black men with higher positions and a stable occupation have to sink down to the level that white people hold for ALL black people. Wright refuses to conform to the "way you act around white people" that his principal is trying to teach him. Wright also becomes irritated with the idea that another black man is trying to teach him this behavior, he has learned to expect it from his white peers but if baffled that another black person would encourage these values and behavior. He doesn't understand why his principal feels it is okay for black people to act and feel inferior just because they are not white.