I also was very confused on the last line of this reading when Hominy tells the narrator that he has “to stop seeing us as individuals” because in doing so he is not “seeing the plantation for the niggers” (80). It seems to me that this is foreshadowing the narrator’s later decision to become the owner of slaves, but I don’t quite see the connection. What do you think he means by a plantation specifically FOR black people, and how could this lead the narrator to adopt a slave-owner mentality?