To Sir With Love

Ricardo Braithwaite though faced with prejudice was still able to displays moral courage when he applied for the job at an electrical firm and was not given it because he was too black and too qualified for it. This was seen when he said ‘ I could stand no more but stood up, reached across his desk for the application form and without a word tore it up…’ Braithwaite did not think that because he was black he shouldn’t have been given the job. So he left with his head held high and bade them good morning.
‘I am at this school as a teacher, that and nothing more; the council did not employ me because I was coloured, and I have no wish to be used as propaganda for any idea or scheme, especially one you just mentioned.’ From this example we can see that Ricardo Braithwaite did not believe that he should be used as a source of entertainment for people that was prejudice and he told them so. He also did not want anyone to think that because he was black he wasn’t capable...