Devil-Abe's Liquor Store

Again, Easy is unhappy about going into white territory because he is "nervous being so close to the police station..."(181). However, Easy is for once able to find similarities between his race and another. He relates to the Jews when he thinks back on seeing the concentration camps during the war. "That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more than a thousand years"(185).