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Friendship


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 had been taught the concept of separate but equal but the vast majority of whites in the South had ignored it. Jimmy however, was able to rise above these stereotypes and realize that black people are the same as him and can be respected. Bishop Johnson was a highly respected black man in the South. "Even before I was an adult and able to understand the difficulty of overcoming racial barriers, I looked on Bishop Johnson as an extraordinary example of success in life."(24) The Bishop was black and realized his place in society and was aware of the racial customs of the day.


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