This part
"Jesus H. Christ. This is all my fault, isn't it? You try to raise them right, to show them the way things work in this world. Maybe if I'd been stricter with Lucy back then, she wouldn't be sauntering around my house with a black man, pretty as you please, without first giving her old man a heads-up so he can do the dishes that are piled up in the sink right there where everyone can see them."

Dad: Our daughter is bringing home a black man?!
Mom: We better do the dishes! We wouldn't want him to do them!
Dad: I agree!