A Tale Of Segregation: Fetching Water Analysis

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In this story, A Tale of Segregation:Fetching Water, it states that William and his father were unable to get their water from a local stop that was popular among the community. This had happened because while waiting for their turn, a group of white men who were racist against black people had taken their time to get water and after William of his father had waited thirty minutes they had decided to leave. When the white men saw them leaving they forced them to stay till every white person had gotten their water. William's father had told William that this was an act of real hatred and prejudice. I think he had said this because it was not necessary to make them wait. There was also no point in doing so. In the passage it also states that

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