The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19
SOMETHING GOOD OUT OF
VIRGINIA
By VIM. PICKENs.

I seems that the "Angry"-Saxo Clubs of Virginia
nave not been quite able to enroll the whole state in
their program for unconditional white superiority judg
ing from what we have just observed and heard in the
city of Roanoke. They have just judge in Roanoke
and when white lawyer careessly used the word "ng
GER in court trial. that judge carelessy remarked:
Contempt of court,-ten dollars fine, sir!"-That's
good; an insult to client to any other person in
civilized court, is insult to the court
Frame-up Fails
scavengering prohibition agent" turned up in the
same court with colored be-boy whom he had arrested
in hotel "bootlegger" The Judge inquired and
found out that the circumstances as follows That
said prohibition officer had taken room at said hotel
as guest,-and as a private citizen had asked the
servant the bell-boy, to go out and get him little
needed "quor giving the belboy the money get it
with.
The Just Judge
The boy the servant of the hotels guests went and
did he asked Finding this to be the nature of
the the just judge remarked to the arrestng of
fcer; This boy is dscharged-he only servant to
do the bidding of the guests,-you sir, are the really
guilty partyyou trying to get fee by taking adj
vantage of servant boy Get out of my court sir and
don't want such buzzards you to darken the
door of this room!"
Even Solomon could not have given a ulster Judgment
than that.
Negro Assaiant Freed
And while in Roanoke the other day, what do
you suppose I witnessed? You won't believe it, but
white man who had been badly beaten by Negro, was
fined $50 and COSTS sent to Jail because he could not pay
the fine, and the Negro exonerad Of course the
evidence in the showed that the Negro was justified
but such evidence would not have saved Negro who
had beaten white bully in Mississippi or Georgia The
Negro had really protected two white women whom this
white bully had met the street and was beating up
The and her daughter had been accosted and
OF them taken by the by the white, who had little
bad liquor in him. The slapped hm,-whereupon
the brutal white proceeded to administer terrible beat
ing to the two white womenwith other white look
ing on, who did not interfere
Punished White Bully.
The affair occurring front of the coored mans
place of business Seeing that the white bystanders did
not help the women, he did not dare to. But after
while the broke away from the beaborng brute
and ran into the colored mans place of business The
colored felt at liberty protect his own place
of business and shut the door the pursuing bully who
promptly broke the door glass and came in and was as
promptly knocked back thru the opening by the coored
man. The bully back second time and made one
great misake he called the coored mans wife, who was
busy phoning for police, bad Then the colored
brother to his words decided to put the real
KAZOoT on the white ully"-whatever that may be.
Woman Helps
Anyhow the powerful brown arm knocked the bully
back thru the opening second time-then reached out
and pulled him back in, so as to knock him thru it
third time. Meanwhile the older white woman picked up
wrench and maued said bully over the head so that
he would lie still for little while.
The police came, arrested the Negro,-but talked
apologetlcay to him,-took him into court next morn
as we have said, the JUDGE, who really is
judge proceeded to fine the white bully who had been
very badly beaten up.
"Chivalry of Southern Manhood"
One will think: Of course,-under that evidence-the
Negro was protecting white women" But do YOU know
that some of the Outstanding white men came into court
and ed saying that the Negro attacked the white man
without provocationthat the bully had not bothered
the womenthat the bully did not even break out that
glass And when the Negro was administering the beat
ing to the brute, of the men who had not helped
their own women, shouted "Why do we stand here and
allow niger to beat up white man like that?"
This is the chivalry" of that stripe of southern man
hood 1t seems to that the chivalry was all under
the hide of the Black Knight.