Dr. Bledsoe had a meeting with the narrator, where he was informed that he must act a certain way with powerful white leaders. He must put aside his culture and his own personality to be the well mannered suck up that he is taught to be. It seems that this era is the transition period between segregation and full natural rights for black people. A point where the law forces these schools and businesses to accept them, but the people there won't. Therefore these big leaders and high up white men want the black people to conform to the most respectful and inhumane personalities. Making them almost like servants, and labeling it as the only way to be respectful, meanwhile the white men are doing awful things and facing no consequence for them. The double standards of this time period once again represents the racism present amongst even the higher up of white men. The "separate but equal" laws seem to still be In action all those years later due to the white men's inability to change. I'm sure this theme will continue to be displayed up until the point where our narrator realizes that it's either conform or live on his own, invisible