In the showers Griffin is intimidated by black bodies, if Griffin were black it's unlikely he would be intimidated by bodies the same color as him. While hitchhiking with a Caucasian male, which by the way is something Williams claims is too dangerous for a black man, Griffin gets pummeled for questions about his sex life. He is asked if he has been with or wants a white woman and what the size of his genitals are. These car scenes reiterate the shower scene and the white man's fascination with black bodies. Griffin is deeply offended by the interrogation which results in the only form of passive resistance we see from Griffin as a black man. Griffin tells the driver that Negro sex is the same as white sex, Griffin goes on to state how the Negro only derives pleasure from sex since he cannot afford other pleasurable luxuries due to the economic disadvantages imposed on Negroes by racist whites. This statement is not based on the personal experience of blacks, but rather on his opinion: there was a middle-class black minority who could afford luxuries, and, in generalizing that blacks can only afford to derive pleasure from sex, Griffin is demonstrating an extremely narrow perspective based on “respectable racism” denoting that he had not captured what it meant to be black. Much of the discrimination against blacks was based on the theory that blacks were sexual predators of white women