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Wright means that most African American boys during that time had to deal with the Caucasian people earlier in their lives, and now they know how to act and what to say when spoken to. However, Wright was too busy in school to get a job, and now that he does have a job, he’s outraged by the Caucasian people and how they treat African Americans. He’s outraged by the treatment, and it always ends in him saying things that makes his bosses angry at him. He wishes that he would have had to deal with this when he was younger because then he would know more of what to do, and he wouldn’t be as outraged. He says, “I had begun coping with the white world too late. I could not make subservience an automatic part of my behavior.” He is saying that he can’t just automatically do whatever he’s told without questioning it or without thinking about it, because he was trained not to.