Maggie experience being burnt while their home was burned. She was devastated while watching the burning yet Dee seems to be okay with what is happening. It was a huge tragedy to Maggie as that house serves as their only memories of the family and at is all they ever had.
Black men are being victimized because of the accusation that they raped white women, but of this there is no history, it was a motive that was used to justify the lynching. That blacks were inferior to whites and therefore there was justification for this society as a whole to be overthrown. Also because they were becoming a primitive race.
