The two stories further illustrate the unease , even hostility , that blacks have tended to feel about their folklore , and about black history In That I Had the Wings , Riley , a young black boy Ellison uses in several stories , hates his Aunt Kate and wishes she had died back in slavery times ; in Flying Home , the black pilot who seeks escape hates the black farmer who rescued him after his crash .
The black pilot in Flying Home didn 't want to be saved because he 'd wanted to die in the crash .