Blog Post 13: We Can Make [Hate] on TUEEEESDAY

In chapter 6 of 'Song of Solomon' we can see from the sounds of it that Guitar hates with all his heart, white people. "You? You're going to kill people?... Not people. White people." (Milkman/Guitar 155) For some reason, Guitar hates every single white person. He does not believe there is such thing as an innocent white person which he states in the book, "It doesn't matter who did it. Each and every one of them could do it... There are no innocent white people, because every one of them is a potential nigger-killer, if not an actual one." (Guitar 155) Guitar is just trying to get rid of them because they do not stop killing. ""You can't stop them from killing us, from trying to get rid of us." (Guitar 154) In a way, he is thinking good because white people abused of their power. But on the other hand, he is wrong. He is wrong because there are innocent white people among themselves. Not all of them are racist, not all of them have shot or killed an African American. He is only looking at the problem from one side of it. We also find out that Guitar in in this group called "Seven Days". It is a group that bases their ideas that are based off the idea of Hammurabi's Code. It was a group of African Americans that killed white people. They just killed them based off the color of their skin, which is wrong because there is no purpose behind it. Milkman points out that the people that are being killed by the "Seven Days" group are white but have not killed a Negro. Milkman says, " What about the nice ones? Some whites made sacrifices for Negroes. Real sacrifices." (Milkman 156) Guitar points out that if you were white, you could decide in any moment in time to just kill for the fun of it, "If Kennedy got drunk and bored and was just sitting around a potbellied stove in Mississippi, he might join a lynching party for the hell of it." (Guitar 156) After trying to change Guitar's view on this topic, he still is not able to change his mind.