Yeah.. I'm White. So what?

    In my English class, we are reading The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines. We were told to write about an example of a stereotype portrayed in the novel and show how that stereotype can be proven as false. I have chosen to write about the stereotype that claims that all white southerners are racist and despise black people. Although it is true that there were a lot of white southerners who hated black people in that time period, this is not true for every white person. For example, there is a white man named Job who helps the main characters, Jane and Ned, and brings them to his home. He even feeds them and lets them stay there for the night despite the fact that he is a white southerner, that Jane and Ned are black children, and that he and his wife are barely able to support themselves. There is yet another case of this hospitality toward the two children when a plantation owner named Mr. Bone lets them stay there and even gives them a job despite their young age and lack of education and experience.