Lanier is also closely working with Jackie in a bid to unwind the death of the four teenagers (Revoyr 328). Lanier is in high activity to try and dig out all the secrets that wrapped his cousin’s death among the other three teenagers.The race-based practice of ignoring critical areas that relate to rights and freedoms of the blacks in Southland creates a sense of social conflict in Lanier’s mind. The implication of this phenomenon on Lanier is disturbing, and one that causes anxiety and fear. The murders of the four teenagers were neither solved nor reported (Revoyr 80). In other words, a race-based practice that disregarded rights for the blacks is more law oriented than socially created. The justice system hardly accounted for the rights and freedom of black population in the Southland. Lanier works together with Jackie to try and determine the circumstances under which the four teenagers were killed. Southland by Nina Revoyr James Lanier plays the role of a cousin to one of the four black teenagers that were murdered in Frank Sakai’s store.
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