Which means he wasn't as critical as the other peers. Diaz was the black sheep of the group with other minorities "Icabod", "Athena" and another "writer of color...{he} didn't know". Diaz analyzed his peers every day. It didn't take long to notice that Caucasians themselves are better than minorities around the world and their own peers. In the text, he alludes to "his white peers' stories were when crime or drugs were featured" and they thought about it negatively, leading them to "stop it" when she tried to make them face their fear. White people feel like they have no mistake about their race. He states that “race was the problem of the colored, not the white class.” In other words, Caucasians felt that minorities had internal conflicts that needed to be dealt with on their own and therefore had nothing to do with "their" internal conflicts. It wasn't their problem; Caucasians grew up with privileges that minorities never had. Keep in mind it was "acting white" but "too white »”