Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-01-06

day where blood alone is considered
and money does not SQUAT. IL you
cannot trace an sristocratic lineage,
the family would Just ss soon think Of
having their sons and daughters marry
Cinnamon IS to have them train aud
associate with O white man or woman
OF humble origin. IL it possible that .
citizen Of color had to- sd viss you of q
condition of affairs existing To- your
very midst What else mesnt the r.
f. Wa Of Virginia? The TIMRs con
tinues:
But that door il shut to the black
man and the probability liz that itswill
always be shut, because. as we have
said, the white man as created with
q repugnance TO the black man which
he could not, il he would, overeome."
Ii ssys further:
"He is unwilling to receive the black
man as guest at bis hreside. He
may have friendly feelings for him and
may be willing Co do him anv favor
that he can, but &C receive him in the
inner circle and to treat him as an inti-
mate he cannot do"
This, sir, is the doctrine OF caste.
II has existed in all ages OF the world.
The Negro does rot wish. g place az q
guest at your Preside, He asks on the
other hand that you will not present
yourself as guest at his Preside.
Issays also:
There is another view. The gen.
teel, educated black man il not only
debarred from intimate association
with the whites. but he 10 often forced
into unpleasant associations " it'll the
interiors OF his OWE race No matter
how cultivated he may be, no matter
how much money he may have, he 10
often for ced by reason of his color into
Posisions whose SURROUNDINGS must be
anything but agreeable to his feelings.
TO more or less extent he must for.
ever suffer the DETERMINATIONS that
are made against his race. he is, to
degree, affected and injured by every
crime that the meanest Negroes COM
mt, and no matter how retioed aud
elegant he may be, he must sudar up
on oceasion for sse bad manners aud
general otfeusiveness OF the 10 west
classes of his race"
For once it has pictured a condition
as it actually exists. 1. continues:
I'VE have in mind the 'Jim Crow
Car which is so Objectionable Co the
blacks. White men do not objsot to
travelling in she same car with decent
we'll. behaved Negroes, but they do 90
let TO being forced into an association
for the time with black men and woua-
en- who are dirty in person add bois.
ferrous and offensive in manner, and
as we said in n recent article, such az
ISOLATION is not only dissgreesble. but
absolutely o menace to peace and good
order. White men do not like the
Jim Grow car, per sc any more than.
black men like it,"
The,clsss OF people referred Ito, do
not as: rule 60 into Hrst. class
cars, but are satisfied to journey in the
smoking ears. AS to the boisterous i'll
hammered colored people, the railroad
car is no place for them and the con-
auctors have long ago been armed with
power to not only enforce order but
to put them of the train.
You argue that:the mesnest, lowest
white demi- monde is to bs accord ed
privileges denied to the most sslf-re-
specting. Renteel Negro. The very
idea is sbsurd.
The TIhss has the sudacity to say:
"All black msn look alike to the law
and the law cannot discriminate. The
greatest good to the greaeest number
Is a we'll recognised maxim of the Ia ".
and those who advocate the "Jim
Grow" Ger say that it is batter fer the
few geuteel blacks TO suffer than for
all the whites to suff IT from che Sff.n
sive and dangerous Negroes who ride
back and forth on our railways"
This is a condition pictured by dis
ordered mind, crssed By prejudice and
devoid OF Christianity. There ia ma
suffering upon thersilroads of Virginia
Colored people of this state are said
to be more orderly, well-behaved than
any other class in the world.
This is why the agitation for sepa-
rate Gar law is received with but little
favor and has been oncs before put to
sleep," where il was b opedthat it would
know no waking"
There are white men in Virginia,
who know the Negro and to them We
we shall make our appeal to avert this
crewning infamy of the Nineteenth
Century. Let Us have no "Jim Grow
Oar Lsw" in Virginia.