Pg. 14. “Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don’t tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.”
Nanny is going through the different classes: White men give work to the black men who take the white mens work who then give it to the black women who are the ‘mules’ of the world. The black women are really the ones who do everyones work. Mules are known as the ‘beast of burden’ which corresponds with women.
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