Mexican WhiteBoy

Ray shows up with something urgent to tell his brother Tommy. He rolls and lights a joint as he nervously recalls the incident that happened the day prior. Uncle Ray invites Danny to go shopping to get food for Sunday dinner. When they get in the car, he reintroduces Danny to his two buddies, Tim and Rico. On the way to the store, they speak of Rico’s misadventures with a woman who threw him out on the street, and then Rico starts peppering Danny with questions, asking whether he’d ever gotten “slick with one of them uniform-wearing girls?” (201) Ray tells Rico in a tone that implies he’s dead serious to lay off Danny; he’s his big brother’s kid. They get to the market and buy all the groceries, but when they pull out of the parking lot, a white man on a bike runs into the Bronco. It’s unclear as to whether the man is on drugs, homeless and/or mentally ill, or just in a daze from having run into a car. The reason matters not to Ray who becomes immediately enraged and turns his car around. Rico is urging Ray on while Tim is in the front seat trying to calm Ray down.