During Harry Crews youth, he is told that he is a superior to blacks but deep down he realizes they are the same as him. Harry Crews was a young white boy who lived with his mom, brother, and father on a tobacco tenant farm in the South. Harry Crews was not old enough to work on the farm so he spent his days playing in the shade under the oak tree watching his mom, his brother, and Willalee Bookatee pick the worms off the plants. Willalee was the son of the black family who helped work the farm. Willalee however knew his place in th

d in. It mattered to my blood.”(401) The day Harry learned Willalee was a nigger was a vivid memory in his life. Until his aunt told him to call black people nigger Jones instead of Mr. Jones he had never noticed a difference and thought that they were just the same. However, Harry could still not see a difference between him and Willalee even though he knew one existed, “I don’t know what difference it ever made that I found out the Willalee was a nigger. But no doubt it made a difference. Willalee was our friend… But sometimes we used him like a toy.” (402) Harry deep down knew they were the same people inside yet in the world he lived in he was still the superior being which still confused him. Harry believed that he “ lived in a discoverable world, but that most of what we discover is an unfathomable mystery that we can name- even defend against- but never understand.” (406)

In the youth years of Jimmy Carter’s life, his parents shaped Jimmy’s ideas of black people but still he was able to come to his own conclusions and accept them. Jimmy Carter’s youth consisted of living on a large farm in Georgia. Jimmy Cater was rich compared to the rest of the South. He had luxuries in his house like a telephone that most others did not have. On the farm he lived on he wondered why that a half century after the “War Between the States” (17) his families “could not forget that we had been conquered while most of our neighbors were black people whose grandparents had been liberated in the same conflict. Our two races, although inseparable in our daily lives, were kept apart by social custom, misinterpretation of Holy Scriptures, and the unchallenged law of the law.” He h

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