All his time spent in Canton met with little support, if not disgust, from both whites and blacks. Although the county is primarily made up of black citizens, they remain subservient to the area's white citizens. This really confuses and annoys Moody. It is viewed with contempt by almost all black elders and appears to affect only a small number of adolescents. It was at this moment that she privately realized that if change is to happen, it must come from the younger generations, not the older ones. She again portrays older black people as brainwashed and afraid to take what's theirs. Blacks in the county owned nearly half the land, but most had barely enough means to feed their families. She initially seems to think that inferior thinking is only predominant in Centerville and Woodville, but when she realizes that this same mentality is present in Canton as well as all other parts of Mississippi, as well as the New Orleans is just another nail in the coffin