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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447984" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Immorality</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?<br>Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to his race.<br>Listen, listen to my story, as I now proceed to tell<br>Of conditions in the Southland, where the mass of Negroes dwell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ev'ry city, town or county, ev'ry state on Southern soil,<br>Has mulattoes in its borders, found among the sons of toil.<br>Can you tell from whence they landed; or to whither shall they go?<br>Is the Negro race responsible alone, I'd like to know?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a man among the Negroes is the least suspected there<br>Of an intimate relation with a daughter that is fair,<br>Then an angry mob arises and he answers for the same<br>In a death, the worst in cruelty the company can name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though the noonday sun is shining at the time the lynching's done,<br>Still the officers of justice can't detect a single one,<br>Who partook in Negro killing, for the deed no one is blamed,<br>And inside the nation's senate comes a voice, 'We're not ashamed.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is the same true when a white man leads a Negro girl astray?<br>When he takes away her virtue, is the same true? tell me, pray,<br>Do the press and pulpit clamor or condemn the mighty wrong?<br>Is there sentiment against it? is the burden of my song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the case is thus presented, they are silent as the grave,<br>And the law at once is powerless a Negro's name to save,<br>So you see the same continues and the truth is like a flood,<br>That in veins of Southern Negroes flow the best of Southern blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can you tell of these mulattoes, did they fall here from the sky?<br>How is this that they're among us? can you tell the reason why?<br>Who's to blame for their existence? is the Negro race alone?<br>If there are such freaks in nature it is time to make them known.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis a custom born of slavery when master's law and might,<br>Was enforced upon the bondsman without question of the right,<br>And the parson preached on Sunday how the servant should obey<br>All the mandates of the master, let them be whate'er they may.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, how sad the tales of bondage when persuasive measures failed, <br>How they tortured Negro women till their hellish plans prevailed!<br>Women faithful to their virtue were as martyrs sent to rest,<br>Others yielded to the tempter, weary, helpless and distressed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the spirit lives at present for the master hand to rule,<br>Cook or washer, nurse or housemaid passes through this training school,<br>Lo! the greatest of temptations, men and devils there invent,<br>And present them to the servants, on their ruin so intent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's no friend to whom the dusky maiden can appeal for aid,<br>To the mistress of the home to speak of such she is afraid,<br>In the law there's no protection that a Negro girl can claim,<br>None to rescue, none to pity, so she enters into shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now reflect for just a moment, in the light of what you see,<br>Which is worse, to yield the tempter or the evil one to be?<br>Can you still believe that Negroes are immoral more than whites?<br>O, how different the picture if the Negro had his rights!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a God who rules in justice, one who feels his children's pain,<br>So we know that sin and darkness cannot always hope to reign,<br>All the ills to Negro women will the Father bring to light,<br>For the Judge, the only Judge of all creation will do right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lizelia+Augusta+Jenkins+Moorer">Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer</a><div class=q>
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Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to his race.
Listen, listen to my story, as I now proceed to tell
Of conditions in the Southland, where the mass of Negroes dwell.

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