In the closing lines of the second section, Kincaid directly attacks the hypocrisy underlying colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy. Believing in the superiority and advanced state of their culture, white outsiders from North America and Europe tend to look down on places like Antigua, taking their corrupt governments and low standards of living as proof that formerly colonized people cannot govern themselves. That’s why, according to this line of thinking, Antiguans were liable to colonization or enslavement in the first place. Kincaid exposes the lie at the heart of this argument. Colonialists, in taking land, resources, and autonomy from colonized people, taught uncivilized behavior like lying, theft, and murder. Claiming to have a superior civilization cannot cover up the uncivilized actions that colonizers perpetrated—at least as long as people (and readers) willingly face the truth of their actions and their history.