The most important thing to note about the shift in class structure can be seen by looking at the former behavior of Sutpen and Wash with how they behaved after the war. Before the war Wash felt himself cheated because he was put well below the slave, "...it would seem to him [Wash] that that world in which Negroes, whom the bible said was cursed by to be brute and vassal to all men of white skin," The narrator continues, "were better found and housed and even clothed than he and his" (Wash 538). This passage goes on to note how black people laughed and tormented him. ...

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To better illustrate the crippling impact of conspiracy theories as they pertain to efforts and to the African American community, take note of a survey conducted by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ... Poez (1997) notes key elements on advancing conspiracies, one of which is victimhood. ...

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