I have not been very impressed with Macon up until this point in the novel. Although unconsciously, he still takes advantage of his white privilege and does things that might seem like justice (ie. robbing white people) but end up looking no better than the violence perpetrated on black people. I'l first talk about his unconscious white privilege. He has a job. Although it's not a great job, it's probably easier to get hired as a cab driver if you're white (especially now that black cabbies have been framed for the robberies) than if he was black. Macon also seems to have this confidence that he can mess around and be fine--and he probably will be fine since he is white. Instead of being sentenced to some ridiculously long jail time, if Macon is found out to be behind the cab robberies, he will probably lose his job and have to pay a fine for owning an unlicensed firearm. He probably wouldn't spend more than a month in jail. Macon's not-too-shabby financial background is also probably going to keep him afloat when he trips up, something that few black people in NYC could say during that time.
I'm also disgusted by Macon's idea that robbing ordinary white people will make up for all of the damage done to black people over the past two centuries. This is exactly what he shouldn't be doing. One, because when he is found out, it will probably bring more scrutiny onto the black community. And two, because this is essentially identical to the injustices faced by black people in the 19th and 18th centuries. Anyone who has a basic understanding of history knows that two wrongs don't make a right.
