(From the Louisville News.)
A few "grand old Southern gentle
men" are agitating the building of a
monument in honor of the old black
Mammies and Uncles of ante-bellum
days. This agitation going on through
the Southern press is full of disgust
ing sentimentality expressing the high
regard of said gentlemen for said Mam
mies and Uncles. According to the
truck we read slavery was a great and
noble institution and both slave and
master were happy and contented with
conditions. No slaves tried or wanted
to escape so delightful a bondage the
crack of the whip as it brought blood
from some black today regardless of
sex, the bark of the hound as he chased
human prey, who in a foolish moment
had yielded to the desire for liberty,
the bidding at the auction block when
mother and child wer torn
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later the District Supreme Court held been instaUeTas principTof S
that Comptroller Williams may ndt re- see, Ala.f, Jo& aned I. Institute. He
tain the |5,000he imposed upo the
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kind
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to
old jeklemen. But because
the the happy service
given by the old Mammy and the old
Uncle they would build a monument to
their memory. And in years to come
Southern white boys and girlsdis
gusted and angered at the continued
"freshness" of black boys and girls
can look at that monument and remem
ber "things were not always thus."
Why not a monument to the thou
sands of known and unknown lynched?
Why not a monument to the thou
sands of Colored Women raped and
seduced in the backwood towns of
Southern States? Why not a monu
ment at Waco, Texas, where 15,000
men and women cheered the burning
of a black boy? These monuments are
about as necessary and would be as
decorative and beautifying as one to
the old black Mammy and the old
black Uncle
Answer to Jimcrowists.
