p185-199 Glorious Hill & The Third Thing

Well that was unexpected. Not completely unexpected, but I didn’t expect that to be how a major tension point got resolved. Fern’s public declaimation of Crazy Kelvin for telling the police about the Black Panthers was well, I suppose narratively appropriate, I just think that at this point the story hasn’t really set up his motivations for doing that. He seemed to not only be not very nice but also very pro-Black. Why should the character who challenges the characters about what they call themselves and the color of a babydoll be a bad guy? It’s good to see these characters challenged and challenge is uncomfortable but doesn’t have to be a bad thing. I guess this little turn of events is just rubbing me a little the wrong way because it seems to undercut the story.