Respect is a deal, an unwritten social compact.
If you accept the norms if you don't cheat, steal or step out of line we will accept your foibles and judge you less harshly. Respect is a reckoning, and, once offered, is rarely revoked. Dress, behaviour, work and church are key components of respect which is used to judge both within and across the colour divide. McDonald is an angry man. Unemployment and a life spent locked up in boys' homes and jails fuel volcanic emotions that lie below an eloquence which belies his years of incarceration.