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I would not treat Boyd or someone who is not of the same race differently. I believe that all humans on earth are from the same "god" and we are all united as one. This kind of behavior is unacceptable now but i could understand why Mrs Wilson thought of this. In early American history, the African Americans were slaves and worked hard lives. As time progresses, their race developed slow and majority of male worked as labourers and females worked as maids.(like in TKAM where Calpurnia works for the Finch's) Many negros did not hold high ranked jobs and they earned little. The assumption that Boyd was poor was easily understood. However i would not have treated him like that due to a few factors: The generation gap between Mrs Wilson and her son has created conflict as Johnny is friends with Boyd and he is young so he does not know about the stereotypes associated to African Americans. His mother is older than him and for sure she understands more than what he knows. She then sympathises with Boyd and offers some form of kindness