The Color of Water

how does McBride convey his disdain for his black reporter co-workers who "[wield] their race like baseball bats"?

how does McBride convey his disdain for his black reporter co-workers who "[wield] their race like baseball bats"?

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James is referring to his time as a newspaper editor. He mentions some of the white women who he found to be bright and compassionate. He criticizes black male editors who thought that were the "second coming of Martin Luther King" and would use their race to get what they wanted.