Is Macon Effective?
Throughout the book we have seen Macon argue for black rights and denounce white people, but has he been effective? In the beginning of the book he was super radical, and seemed to believe that everything he did had a profound impact. In reality, he was just a kid blowing up police cars, and robbing people in his taxi. People either didn't seem to care too much, or if they did care about what he was doing they didn't connect his actions with the larger race argument that he was trying to make. However, when Macon gets media attention and is invited onto talk shows, his friends advise him to be less radical. After all, the way that Macon tends to argue is to just throw an alternate reality into peoples' faces as a proposition. Sometimes he goes over the top (like when he's on the Rise and Shine New York show) and people think he's crazy. Deeming Macon as crazy is an easy way to shrug off his arguments, which is why his friends want him to be more subdued. When Maco