The colored American., 1902-06-28

ry1ng one or another of these gay dam
sells, or how he had to leave one town
in the West in self-defense. in order
to escape the opportunities of the pret-
test girl in the town, whose father
thought the world and all of him, who
was as rich as cream and did not know
no man" by his color. He acknowl-
edged that he had been a fool in not
taking advantage of that opportunity,
as by this time he would have been in
dependently rich, as the old man died
SIX years ago and left the bulk of his
millions to his pretty daughter, who
hnaIIy married a street car conductor.
and is now suing for divorce.
Then Harry told him something that
made him flop his ears till they almost
Hoped together. 1t was, that there
are few colored coachmen in New
York who haven't got a white wife.
Its a common thing here" said Har-
ry, that amt nothin'" and then Har-
ry reluctantly permitted Bill to order
another Hunter, which they drank in
silence, and the precious pair went out
to hunt some fresh air to cool their
tired brains.
Poor silly fools these, and yet New
York is almost overrun with we'll
dressed Negroes, who either will not
work or who do work like slaves to
accumulate money enough to marry
some Irish servant girl. These same
Negro men would not work with the
same zeal and ardor to support a wom-
an of their own race; on the contrary
they would make her do the hustling.
II she was fool enough, and l am told
that there are lots of female fools of
the race right here in this town who
dress their men from head to foot and
supply them with money weekly and
monthly, with which to play crap,
poker and the races. There is small
hope for better manhood and woman
hood among us where such conditions
obtain. The life dream of some of
these negro men is to take up with a
white woman. Such bliss seems to be
reserved for the fools, who put a pre-
MUM on rope meat, and who have
only contempt for their mothers and
sisters sex. l am disgusted with the
class of negroes here and elsewhere who
are daily discovering to the public
their utter WOrthlessness and their
contemptibly corrupt manner of living.
There are two classes of Negro men
whom every respectable Negro woman
should shun-the workers who marry
ignorant Irish servant girls, and the
workers who do not marry any girl.
but work them for their hard-earned
dollars. The fellow last described is |
a social scab and every decent black |
woman should shun him as she would |
a leper. Neither of them are of any
value to the race, and if they could be |
cleared out by having a dozen funerals |
a day for the next four years the cor
ners of the principal streets where Ne /
grOes congregate would soon be |
free of the noisy buns, imitation !,
sports, and lovers, who are disgracing |
a race which cannot or does not throw
OF the incubus by which that disgrace
is wrought.
There are some exemplary manly
and self-respecting young Negro men
here, but they are in the minority.
Most of these fast blacks come from
the South, and they have come to re-
gard liberty and liscence as synono-
nous terms. Sooner or later white
public sentiment all over the country |
will be directed against the Negro in
masses if the Negroes do not them
selves crush out this dangerously des- |
perate element which is becoming |
more and more bold and defiant in the |
operation of what it considers to be its |
rights.
These youngsters are lacking in good |