Describe Mrs. Turner and her attitude towards black folk in Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Mrs. Turner is a light skinned black woman who can pass for white.  She despises her black features, and embraces her white features, such as her thin nose and lips.  It is Mrs. Turner's belief that white people would be accepting of light skinned black people if the darker blacks did not act so loud and vulgar.

She also believes that dark blacks are ignorant.  She has a distinct prejudice toward dark blacks and she tries to convince Janie to marry her brother.  She feels that if light blacks married white people or light skinned blacks that they would be more accepted by white people.

Mrs. Turner does everything that she can to avoid contact with the black community, she won't shop in black stores. She despises how they laugh, how they act rowdy and uncivilized.