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[单项选择]One summer day my father sent me to buy wire for our farm. At 16, I liked (37) better than driving our track, (38) this time I was not happy. My father had told me I’d have to ask for credit(赊账) at the store.
Sixteen is a (39) age, when a young man wants respect, not charity. It was 1976, and the ugly (40) of racial discrimination(歧视) was (41) a fact of life. I’d seen my friends ask for credit and then stand, head down, while the store owner (42) whether they were "good for it." I knew black youths just like me who were (43) like thieves by the store clerk each time they went into a grocery.
My family was (44) . We paid our debts. But before harvest, cash was short. Would the store owner (45) us
At Davis’s store, Buck Davis stood behind the cash desk, talking to a farmer. I nodded
(46) I passed him on my way to the hardware shelves. When I brought my (47) to the cash desk, I said (48) , "