Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1921-03-12
facts? Miss Medora Pease as quoted as

facts? Miss Medora Peasc az quoted as
follows:
81 was coming from Richmond,
where had been visiting friends, on
the 2, O'Clock car. Being just IN time
Tor Sunday School, did not go past
! my home which is at Stop 81, but
proceeded direct to the church. Leav.
ing the car at Stop &c. l started for
! tho Petersburg pike by way Of q
path.
The Negro was standing in Floyd's
field when l first saw him. Stop he
cried. II you holler I'll cut your
| throat But holler did all the way
from tho field TO the road, where l
saw an automobile approaching. DR..
Bowman stopped his car, took me in
and brought. me home"
In that statement there Is not one
sclnt.lla OF evidence that this color
cd man pursued Miss Peasc. In plain
language, he accostcd her and for
ths, an effort was made not only to
take his life, but to endanger the life
of every Golored citizen, who IN any
manner Tailed with the description Oh
the foolish colored man, who accost-
ed her. More than this, a half hum
drcd automobiles were mustered into
service and after the ground had
been tramplcd by hundreds Of excited
white men aud boys, bloodlhounds
.>pn tylt Il % f1,o
alleged crime with the probability
that would be just as liable to follow
tie scent Of an innocent man as thoy
would that of the guilty one.
We are pleased to know then that
The white people of Richmond did
not close their heads" as 80 many in
Chesterfield county seem to have
done. Sheriff CIVIL of Chesterfield
| county is one Of tho ablest and best
county officers anywhere in the coun
try and he could be relied upon to UP
Eold the law, whether tho parties al
legged to be guilty were white or col.
| ored. It seems TO us that the whole
nothing" If no scare headings had
been placed in the newspapers and
the man g"ilty or even this ofrensc
had not been adviser of tho agitation
being made over it. he no doubt would
| now be in the county jail at Chester
| rield Court House.
We have warned our people
| against this kind OF action. We have
told them not 10 even look Mt q
white woman. If you sec one com img
down Il road unaccompanied, get out
Of the way for thousands OF ahem DO
| fiovc that men OF our race cannot
gaze upon tho'r beauty, other than
in n lustful way. We know that this
is a mistake, but il they believe it,
let 1T he that way and let us act &c.
cordingly. Certainly, no colored man
with taste or with commonsense, who
lives in the Southland where white
men have been "busy" for moro than
one hundred years, need go outside
Of their own barn-yard' for compan
ionship.
| We have women as black as the
blacklist and us white as the whitest
with varying hues to satisfy the most
fastidious. We have women with
black hair, auburn hair, white hair
red hair and every other kind OF
hair. Even those, who formerly had
wool on their heads, thanks to the
ha,r-dressers have us straight hair Of
Commanche Indian, and with little
or no attention, it can be kept In
that condition. We therefore have nj
sympathy with any colored man, who
would risk his health and happiness
on this earth and his chances foi
| heaven by even docking at white
woman "in this neck of the woods"
But with a little missionary work
ell of our people VIII be able TO com
| hne i'll movement to allny this
KIND OF excitement. Let white men
haye the white. women, both as sweet
hearts and wives and lot. the colored
men have the white-colored women,
The yellow colored women the brown
coloreG women and tho black color.
eli women. even though black is the
absence Of all colors and let the
white men "shin on their side" and
the black men shin Oh their side
and then there will be peace and han
p:ness in the land, (which the Lord,
thy God giveth thee" :,