However, while the whites of the Valley attempt to suppress the African-Americans, what the people of the Valley did not expect was that the people of Bottom would also thrive in the hills. Specifically, Morrison affirms the city's accomplishments even in light of the misfortune within the lines: "After the city grew and the farmlands turned into a village and the village into a city and the streets of Medallion became hot and dusty for progress, those heavy trees sheltering the shacks at the bottom were wonderful to see” (Morrison, ).What makes this scene interesting is the way in which Morrison has formulated a political commentary encapsulated in the description of the Bottom producing excellence in Nello specifically, Morrison is revealing that while the segregation operation as a whole was unfavorable and facilitated the dissolution of the American Union, yet within segregation the African-American culture developed its own divine union. In a somewhat strange aspect, Morrison He looks fondly on some characteristics of segregation and has uncorked a domain that features segregation, but through such oppression both the Valley and the Bottom have become equal in prosperity. Specifically, segregation cultivated a new generation of American entrepreneurs who capitalized on the system