Pg. 39. “Us colored folks is too envious of one ‘nother. Dat’s how come us don’t git no further than us do. Us talk about de white man keepin’ is down! Shucks! He don’t have tuh. Us keeps out own selves down.”
Hicks and Joe argue about whether or not having a post office or a store is relevant. Hicks make it out to be only a white people thing. Joe says that colored people get too jealous of each other to try and work together or make something for themselves. It isn’t the white people that keep them from allowing their lives to progress and get better, it’s themselves. Joe wants to see the people make something out their town and people. He believes that because white people have something the colored people should too.
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