"Go get me my money!"

“For more than an hour Porter held them at bay: cowering, screaming, threatening, urinating, and interspersing all of it with pleas for a woman. He would cry great shoulder-heaving sobs, followed by more screams... ‘'Come down outta there, n****!' Macon's voice was still loud, but it was getting weary.’ 'And you, you baby-dicked baboon' -- he tried to point at Macon -- 'you the worst. You need killin, you really need killin. You know why? ...I know why...Everybody know why.' As he sank deeper into it, the shotgun slipped from his hand, rattled down the roof, and hit the ground with a loud explosion. The shot zipped past a bystander's shoe and blew a hole in the tire of a stripped Dodge parked in the road." ‘Go get my money,' Macon said.’ ‘Me? Freddie asked. 'Suppose he...’ ‘Go get me my money.’ ‘Porter was snoring. Through the blast of the gun and the picking of his pocket he slept like a baby.'"
         This quote says a lot about what one is required to do to achieve success in the America described in Toni Morrison’s novel. Not only is Macon dead forced to become reviled by his own community but also to emulate the racist white ruling class.
       The lack of care for his neighbors that Macon reveals in this passage is astounding. The only reason that Macon seemed to care at all about Porter was getting “His money”. Even after Porter incapacitated himself the first words out of his mouth are an order to his lackey to “Go get me my money”. It is not that Macon doesn't care about Porter. When Freddie told him that Porter was "Drunk Again" He sprinted across town in order extract the cash
       Macon's desire for material wealth has also caused him to emulate the white bourgeoisie that despises him and all others who have the same color of skin.  When he orders him to "come down outta there" he is acting more like a a slave master dictating to his slave than a land owner to his tenant. He even ads in the n-word. adding to the racial tension of the moment. It is illogical for a black man to use a term that specifically demeans people like him unless he doesnt consider himself to be a black man. He has left behind his identity on his search for riches.

All of the tells in Macon’s interactions with Porter really show how much of his identity he has left behind in order to become part of the bourgeois ruling class.