[Gone with the Wind] Miss Margot

Well, from the point of view of the white people, especially from the perspective of the northern white people, Mrs. Versing is covering up the black people and is a traitor among the white people, but for the white people in the south, their great cause has failed, and their beloved , the Confederate government that gave almost everything to support disappeared, and letting blacks own property after emancipating blacks is no longer so intolerable to them.

Just as Margot said, the South now wants to win the support of blacks, and the party that gets the support of blacks can continue to own the South.

The white people in the south know very well that those houses always belong to Margo, and they can live in Margo’s house only if the blacks work for Margo, and the rent has been deducted from their wages, and the black people’s food has always been rationed. of.

For southern whites, the status of blacks is not much different from the past. Except for the few black surgeons, black nurses, and black nurses who appeared because of the war, every profession that blacks engage in is just like them. The division of labor on the plantation was no different.It's just that there are more positions, management is more flexible, and the way blacks manage blacks is adopted on a large scale.

This is no different from plantation management. In the plantation era, plantation owners still had to provide houses for these blacks, and they still had to provide food for blacks, and they also had to provide meat.

The real difference is that black people now have rich money in their hands.

If you look at it from the perspective of black and white, this is indeed a big deal, but from the perspective of state rights, just such a small amount of expenditure makes the black people follow them wholeheartedly, which is more than the Yankees spent in the war to win the blacks before. With a huge amount of money and supplies, Marge really shouldn't spend too little!More importantly, even if the money was in the hands of the blacks, it was quickly returned to Margot through the stock exchange. What the blacks finally owned were those few stocks and a few numbers.

Although she is a woman, she seldom invests in stocks and bonds beyond her husband, but Mrs. Vershing also has her own way of thinking, and she will not be stingy in communicating with her friends.

Just like Mrs. Hotchner's worries, families in the South that have indeed suffered losses in their investments in the past four years are all envious and jealous of those lucky blacks.Of course, all kinds of dark thoughts are also stirring in the dark, but on the surface, they are all echoing Mrs. Vershing.

"Exactly. My friend!" said Mrs. Whiting. "How do those Yankees know how plantations are managed?! Whether Mrs. Clarke or Mrs. Butler, they just keep the plantation It's all taken over from the management. Of course, it's true that they are young and compassionate, so they are extra generous. This shows that they have a heart of gold! I don't think there is anything wrong with it .”

Mrs. Whiting's position in Atlanta was in jeopardy because she fled to Macon in the late war, and she was even kicked out of the "Three Pillars of Atlanta". However, this did not prevent her from being better than others.

"I know why there are such rumors." Mrs. Whiting said with certainty, "I'm sure half of the reason for such rumors is because of Atlanta's housing prices! Atlanta's current housing prices are so high, but There are too few houses on the market that can be traded, so some people are worried, and it is only logical that some people take advantage of this worry to make trouble."

Of course, some people also pointed out that white people cannot buy houses, but black people have houses to rent out. This is also a big problem.

The person who said this was obviously a Yankee lady. Well, Margo is sure that this Yankee lady must have received a good education, or her husband has received a very good higher education and likes to communicate with her and analyze current affairs, otherwise she would not hit Atlanta straight to the point At the heart of today's contradictions.However, if such words reach the ears of black people, there will definitely be problems.

When everyone thought that Margot would take action, Margot unexpectedly remained silent.

No, it should be said that she did not remain silent. On the contrary, she appealed to the Georgia state government and the sheriff of Georgia to bring the murderer to justice as soon as possible, but Margot did not mention anything about the real estate industry in Atlanta that the white people were thinking about.

This made many people very uneasy, and soon, white people, mainly white people from the north, took the lead in holding a parade, hoping that Margot could take back the surplus houses in the hands of black people so as to depress the housing prices in Atlanta.

After the blacks got the news, they immediately exploded.

How could they not blow up?The cause of this murder is very clear to everyone, but the low-class white people who don't work are jealous that the black people have more money than they do.They only see their own poverty, but they can't see their own idleness, let alone the black people's hard work and unity!

Now, the murderer has not been caught, and the white people are coming to deprive them of their property. Can they bear it?

Negroes were the least sympathetic to whites, telling each other, "Those Yankees are so bad. They're pushing us!"

It wasn't that someone proposed a strike to protest, but the Prophet and others disagreed: "No, no, we are working for our girls. If we go on strike, our girls will be lost!"

The Prophet and others are all from Tara Manor. Out of gratitude and respect to Margot and Suellen, they all insist on calling Margot and Suellen "our misses". Many Negroes called Margot and Suellen "Our Misses," no matter where they came from.

"How about this, don't we take turns to take vacations? Those who are on vacation hold signs and go to sit quietly in front of the state government building. Even if there are fewer people, we still have to let those gentlemen see our determination!"

These niggers decided to take on those "nasty Yankees."

Just do it.Early the next morning, the staff of the Georgia State Government saw many black people, men, women, old and young, all dressed neatly, holding signs and sitting on the square in front of the state government.

These black people are very quiet, each with a small stool, even the children do not cry, and occasionally communicate with each other in a low voice.

At the beginning, white people were very surprised.Because these black people did not carry weapons, did not violate the law and order, and did not take any radical actions, just sitting in the square.The square was originally a place for civic activities, and Georgia's laws did not prohibit black people from appearing in the square.

So at the beginning, people just looked at these black people from a distance, and no one asked why these black people appeared here.

But at dusk that day, after the blacks packed up and left, the state government made a sensation.

When the blacks didn't leave the square, everyone thought they would leave a litter.When they left, the square was still clean, with no signs of defecation or food residue, just like the sanitation workers had just cleaned it in the morning.

In this era, this is considered to be a quality that only upper-class white people possess, but in fact, upper-class white people in the south can't do it at other people's dances, and they will spit betel nut residues all over the floor.But these black people also ate betel nuts, but they didn't leave any scum!

How could the state government not be alarmed? !