What detail in this excerpt further complicates Neto's conflict?
Read the excerpt from It's Our World, Too!: Young
People Who Are Making a Difference.
When they entered the board's meeting room, Neto was
terrified. They were alone with the ten white men who
were the members of the Marsing school board. "I
couldn't believe I was really doing this," Neto recalls.
"Then I heard Baldy say, 'Neto wants to talk with you
about the football team.
"So I just started. I told them I was quitting and why. I told
them word-for-word what I had heard. Only one of them
looked like he was really listening. When I was finished,
they thanked me for coming, but they didn't say they
would do anything about it. I went home thinking, Well, at
least I tried. Now they can't say nobody told them."
O Neto is terrified to speak to the school board.
O Baldy takes Neto to the school board meeting.
Neto tells the school board about the racist
comments.
O The school board does not respond to Neto.