“Since emancipation, almost a hundred years ago , they would do any kind of work they could find to keep from working side by side in the field with the niggers…Even took that kind of work from the white boys, because they would do wit so much cheaper than the white boys would,Anything not to work alongside the niggers”(198)

Sometimes within your own race you are faced with racism , you wouldn’t expect that form of monstrosity to someone of your same background. Simply because one is a few shades lighter doesn’t define you to be greater than anybody. Grant repeat that the multattos in his town were willing to do anything to keep from working with “niggers” , their brothers , black men , same background , and in the eyes of the white man a nigger. The mulattos are willing to go as far to charge less for their labor , whites discredits them and their work , just to not work with “niggers”. One is willing to go as far , as limit the amount of pay they should receive for ones labor all to avoid someone like themselves but a few shades lighter. Racism within its own race is a barbaric , sickening and Gaines takes us to this place , so it is known what is going on within the community.