The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-10
ARTICLE II
By WILLIAM MELVILLE SUITE


By WILLIAM MELVILLE SUTTON.
Whenever a northerner objects to
the white mans attitude or treatment
of the Negro, and only a courageous
northerner will in the south, and
whenever he voices the opinion that
the black man is a human being, the
thin-hpped, mean-looking mouth of
the southerner expresses the one
tracked brains ever-persistent, ubi-
quitous retort:
oval, would you-all marry mig
gah; would you-all sleep with one ?"
Can't Argue With Him.
TO him it is the retort magnificent.
He has floored you and he cackles.
And against such logic one has no ar
gument.
Evidence OF the southern race
equality myth is the Jim Grow law
which takes its place, among the
moronic legislative acts of the south,
with the Tennessee Anti-Evolution
law. Because you wonder why a seat
is contaminated because a Negro has
sat in it or because a Negro sits in
the one next to yours on the street
car and train, you are asked, would
you-all marry a niggah." But no
one will give a really good reason.
Perhaps the southerner feels, like
Europe's consanguineous royal min
MES, that subject Of common and
therefore lowly vintage is unfit as a
seat-comrade. Or perhaps that a
Negroes proximity to him degrades
him. Who can know? For who can
fathom the southern mind, simple as
it might be?
liant to Hog Room.
The jim Grow law stipulates in gist
that although Negroes must take the
back seats and the whites the front
ones-in order that they may have
the better view perhaps-there must
be no dividing line; the arrangement
must be made according to the num-
Der of white and black passengers.
Yet-there always is a yet in the
south-white simpletons daily harass
the newspapers with demands that
they, the newspapers, use their in
fluence to gain legislation that would
bring about cut-and-dried boundary
line. Such a line, for instance, that
would cause conditions under which
Negroes would stand, while only a
few of their brethren sat, and the
whites would sit in compartment
with four rows Of sides, ats to spare
and vacant. But, legislations or no,
the whites see to it that similar con-
ditions prevail.
Ancient TerrOrs.
For example-and / am not pre-
senting theories or hypothesis, but
actual facts--two chattering, Shiny
and skinny old spinsters drag their
empty carcasses into a street-car,
which, like all southern cars, has two
short benches facing each other in the
front, two rows of side seats intended
for two passengers each, and then
two more benches, as in front, at the
back. Seats and benches alike are
occupied, in that in front the benches
are full and in each side seat at least
one persona Negro is person, if
not a parsonage, to this writer's
seated Yet the chattering females,
who could easily find seats alone,
among the whites, of course, must
take places where their decaying hips
would be in juxtaposition. Two Ne
groes may be sitting together. They
have all the rights of law, street-car
rules and regulations, etcetera, TO
their seats. But the two females re-
fuse to see it in that light.
A high-pitched, stringy voice that
under other circumstances is a whine,
orders:
"Hey, you niggahs, veal wants
dem seats. Git up"
And They Do.
And obediently, the two blacks rise
and walk to the reSr Of the car, where
they hang their heads to hide the
chagrin and malice that shake them,