(PG 48) Colored folks oughtn’t tuh be so hard on one ‘nother.
This is Sim Jones talking referring to Joe running Henry Pitts out of town. I thought this was a very strange sentence. I understand that black people were the minority for the longest time and they always had each others backs and protected each other the best the could. However I thought it was strange that the people get mad for Joe abiding by the law even though it means forcing one of their own to leave town. Even in communities with white people, people get punished for their crimes, and that’s just the way it is because the law says so, it didn’t matter your skin color. However there were times where men with money could squeeze their way out of sticky situations, but that is a whole different matter. Anyway, I thought this was a prime example of how the black people stood up for one another and acted as a whole. This reinforces and at the same time contradicts what Eatonville is all about too: black people’s rights, freedom and the ability to be free from “the man.” Joe is starting to get power happy and is turning in to “the man” and is loosing sight of what Eatonville is all about.
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