All of his time spent in Canton is met with little support, if not disgust, from both whites and blacks. Although the county is made up of mostly black citizens, they still remain subservient to the area's white citizens. This really confuses and annoys Moody. It is regarded with disdain by nearly all older blacks and appears to reach only a small number of teenagers. This is the moment he privately realizes that if change is to come, it will have to come with the younger generations, not the older ones. He once again refers to older blacks as those who have been brainwashed and afraid to take what is theirs. Blacks in the county owned nearly half the land, but most could barely feed their families. He initially seems to think that inferior thinking is only prominent in Centerville and Woodville, but when he realizes that this same mentality is present in Canton as well as all other parts of Mississippi, as well as New Orleans, this is just another nail in the head. his coffin