In the second section of heavy “black abundance” we follow an older version of laymon who seems to understand the cruel world he lives in a bit more. This Section continues to elaborate on heavy topics previously discussed in the book as well as new ones.

I think laymons view on the world has become a lot a larger in this section. He states “no one ever taught me to write to or for my people.”( P 98)  Although he was referring to writing this quote is much deeper than it may seem. He is stating that he was never taught to have a voice to speak up on issues people of color went through and in ways to empower the people dealing with those struggles. Not only that, but “no one taught me” goes along with a lot of the section. This is reinforced when he states, “they never said the words: ‘economic inequality,’ ‘housing discrimination,’ ‘sexual violence.’ ‘Mass incarceration,’ ‘homophobia,’ ‘empire,’ ‘mass eviction,’ ‘post-traumatic stress disorder,’ ‘white supremacy,’ ‘patriarchy,’ ‘neo-confederacy,’ ‘mental health,’ or ‘parental abuse’ yet every student and teacher at the school lived in a world shaped by those words.” (p114) Since he has constantly lived thought this and is now older he slowly becoming more aware of it and becoming angry, unfortunately at this point of the book he is punishing himself over this. This also goes back to wanting to write a lie, since the world was ignoring all these problems and not putting this labels to them, it would have been much easier for him to do the same.

Laymon, Kiese. (2018). Heavy. New York, NY: Scribne