What might the story "Battle Royal" say allegorically to the reader?

The fact
that a young black high school graduate is treated in a way that deceives and humiliates him is
anfor how he will be treated throughout life because he is black.

When the
narrator gives a graduation speech in which he states that humility is the essence of progress,
the whites in town are very pleased and invite him to give the talk to the town's leading white
citizens. But first he has to participate in a "battle royale" boxing match that other
black youths are a part of.

The black teens have to take the servants'
elevator to the ballroom. There, they face a blond white woman doing a naked dance, just the
kind of situation to make a black male teenager extremely frightened, since even looking at
white woman could lead to a lynching. Afterwards, they are blindfolded and forced to fight,
while the important white men of the town look on, enjoying the "anarchy" and pain the
young men endure. The young men are supposed to be paid but are first forced to grab money from
an electrified carpet while the whites laugh at them for "dancing" from the shocks. To
top it all off, the narrator later realizes that the "gold" coins he thinks he has
gathered are brass tokens.

All of this is an allegory for the pain,
humiliation, and treachery black people suffer from whites in a society when there is no level
playing field. The white people are clearly in charge and can laugh at, taunt, and order the
black people around with no fear of reprisal. What we see in this story is an allegory of the
injustice of the larger society.