"It was reported that several hundred Negro employees throughout the city had been dismissed from jobs. A well-known banker's wife phoned this paper that she had dismissed her Negro cook, 'for fear the she might poison the children'" (244).
I think this is racism at its finest, no? How sad that is, to persecute all of them because of Bigger's actions! I mean, I'm sure white people have done the same, but they never fired their white workers! It's not like all of the black people of the world are going to band together to kill all of the white people. The thirties sure were stupid...
vigilante: n. any person who takes the law into his own hands, as to avenge a crime
exhorted: v. To urge by strong, often stirring argument, admonition, advice, or appeal
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