I just finished Sharon Solwitz's story "A Country of Herself," I liked it but i didn't like it. I hated that she did not take the baby with her when she died and that he was left for her goyim, white male husband. I hate that she was not vindicated. People never want anyone to be too free. Why did Alice Walker let those white men beat up on Ms. Sophia? Why couldnt she have bashed their heads in? Why didn't the entire community of colored people-- and others who would join... gather together in a revelrie of kicking much white male ass? I don't understand.......why systems of oppression always have to exist....