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In both excerpts, the main idea is African-American freedom and segregation. The first one mostly expresses that you have to accept who you are and how people view you first to make changes, and the second excerpt talks mostly about how Washington's views affected how African Americans are treated. It states that they have to give up three things: political power, insistence on civil rights, and higher education of youth.
I would rather come from old money because that insinuates that the money was probably inherited and so you never really needed to work to gain that money. You are automatically set from the beginning itself and so its easy. Gatsby had to work hard to make all the money he has and still he gets no respect or true reward whereas Tom gets all the respect and loyalty just because his family had gave him a good foundation and reputation to start with.