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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447986" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jim Crow Cars</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If within the cruel Southland you have chanced to take a ride,<br>You the Jim Crow cars have noticed, how they crush a Negro's pride,<br>How he pays a first class passage and a second class receives,<br>Gets the worst accommodations ev'ry friend of truth believes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis the rule that all conductors, in the service of the train,<br>Practice gross discriminations on the Negro—such is plain—<br>If a drunkard is a white man, at his mercy Negroes are,<br>Legalized humiliation is the Negro Jim Crow car.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis a license given white men, they may go just where they please,<br>In the white man's car or Negro's will they move with perfect ease,<br>If complaint is made by Negroes the conductor will go out<br>Till the whites are through carousing, then he shows himself about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They will often raise a riot, butcher up the Negroes there,<br>Unmolested will they quarrel, use their pistols,rant and swear,<br>They will smoke among the ladies though offensive the cigar;<br>'Tis the place to drink their whiskey, in the Negro Jim Crow car.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If a Negro shows resistance to his treatment by a tough,<br>At some station he's arrested for the same, though not enough,<br>He is thrashed or lynched or tortured as will please the demon's rage,<br>Mobbed, of course, by 'unknown parties,' thus is closed the darkened page.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If a lunatic is carried, white or black, it is the same,<br>Or a criminal is taken to the prison-house in shame,<br>In the Negro car he's ushered with the sheriff at his side,<br>Out of deference for white men in their car he scorns to ride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We despise a Negro's manhood, says the Southland, and expect,<br>All supremacy for white men—black men's rights we'll not protect,<br>This the Negro bears with patience for the nation bows to might,<br>Wrong has borne aloft its colors disregarding what is right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is called a Christian nation, but we fail to understand,<br>How the teachings of the Bible can with such a system band;<br>Purest love that knows no evil can alone the story tell,<br>How to banish such abuses, how to treat a neighbor well.</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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