In the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Cassie, a fourth grader, experiences people showing inequity towards blacks, including herself, at a mercantile in Strawberry. For instance, when Cassie, Stacey, and T.J. arrived in the front of the line to receive their orders from Mr. Barnett, a white man who runs the mercantile in Strawberry, he deliberately omits them when white people come to the line to wait for their orders to be filled. After around an hour, Cassie grows impatient and tries to politely addresses him that them still need their orders filled up. But then, he grew hot in temper, turns to Stacey with a hateful force, saying, “Make sure she don’t come back till yo’ mammy teach her what she is” (Taylor 112).