“The beans are good and the prices are good, so the Indians might, must be, wrong. You couldn't have a hurricane when you make seven or eight dollars a day picking beans. Indians are stupid anyway, always have been. (Their eyes were watching God) The Native Americans were right about the hurricane, but the African Americans completely ignored what they said because they were prejudiced, claimed to be stupid, and claimed that they always had been. One of the few true examples of racism present in the story would be when the two white men forced Tea-Cake to bury the bodies. First, the men forced Tea-Cake to do manual labor, and then, while they were sorting the bodies, they told Tea-Cake to throw the African Americans into a ditch and save the whites for the coffins. Even after their deaths, prejudice against Africans still persists