Uncomfortable Reads

I consider myself a pretty dark writer, and enjoy to write out of the norm, but some of the stories that we were assigned to read sort of made me uncomfortable in a way. The main story that made me feel this way was "Going to Meet the Man" I felt that this story was good, but really uncomfortable considering what it was about. Basically the man got aroused because he was thinking about the hanging of a black man that he saw when he was a child. I felt the thought alone is enough to disturb someone and then i tried to think about the time period. I  can see how in that time that may be uncommon, but no where near normal, i feel that it was something that would even shock some of the most racist people