<span>He tries to convince him by offering him money and food if they mug some guy and the narrator doesn't want to do it. So, the other man makes the narrator think that white people don't like them, so the narrator goes ahead and decides to team up with him. The narrator learned that white people aren't always happy either and that the other man had lied to him.</span>
the quality of being unwilling to work or use energy; idleness.
example=it was sheer laziness on my part"
Answer:
To abstain, either as an individual or group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.