In "Battle Royal", what does it mean to the narrator to have the superintendent of school at the hotel give his speech?

The narrator is at
first quite honored to find that the superintendent of schools is among the men at the gathering
in the hotel. Then when the white men's behavior becomes rude and offensive because of their
blatant racism, the narrator is appalled and then disgusted by them. The superintendent is among
those who are drunk, and this fact shocks the narrator as well. His view of the community
leaders is shattered because the white men behave so abominably toward the young black men. Only
when he is given the briefcase and scholarship does he feel some sense of appreciation, but even
then his reaction is mixed because he has been humiliated, beaten, electrically shocked, and
told to deliver his speech after this ordeal.