Blackass follows the life of Furo as he wakes up one day, as a white man. It explains and describes the life he goes through all the experiences he makes as a white man, knowing things would have been different had he been black. He gains access to social settings he would have been excluded from, had his skin nor been white. This is how the book gives a clear insight to the world a black man lives in, compared to the world a white man lives in, even though they live the same place.
Furo was at the bottom of the social ladder. When he wakes up white, he suddenly isn't anymore, ad he has more opportunities handed to him than he could ever expect. However, he doesn't look at the things he goes through as a social problem. Instead, he forgets about his life as a black man and erases it as much as he can, so he can focus on the life he has planned for himself instead.
The way Furo deals with his new appearance says a lot about human nature. Furo has a family and friends, whom he forgets and leaves once he has the chance of stardom. Had he not changed, he would have been begging at their feet, forever a black man. This has a greater meaning than ht fact that he changed the color of his skin, which perhaps is the exact thing A. Igoni Barret was thinking of as he wrote his book.
