““This that black abundance. Y’all don’t even know.” (Laymon 66) In this section of Heavy by Kiese Laymon called “Black Abundance” we learn about the journey of eighth grade in a new catholic school where the majority of the students were white with his friend LaThon.

Throughout this section we follow Laymon as he begins to realize a lot more things. For instance, in this school he begins to date a white girl named Abby, to which Laymon’s mom, grandma, and even some friends do not agree with. Not to mention the family of Abby. This section, we gain insight and learn about the interracial relationship Laymon has. We realize some hardships and differences there are between the two especially when Laymon realizes that the reality is that Abby might never understand what he feels when he sees the police brutality against men like him. To add on, Laymon begins to also realize the reality of what his mother has been telling him the whole time how the white folks will never want to see them win, especially when we begins to see that the police in Mississippi begins to follow him a lot more.