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“Say not so!” exclaimed Bunny,
Lol
“You ain’t thinkin’ o’ dealin’ in coal, are you?”
Bruh
colored fellow that went to Germany to study about three years ago? He’s just come back and the Times claims he’s announced a sure way to turn darkies white.
Oh a bit obvi
“Doc, you sho’ knows yo’ onions,”
Idiom
He’d holler starvation in a pie shop.”
Idiom
White at last!
Oh a bit anticlimatic
open sesame
Idiom
journalistic gnats.
like the use of gnats
We’ll give you a lot of money for your story.”
Im getting annoyed
had undergone the tortures of Doc Crookman’s devilish machine in order to escape the conspicuousness of a dark skin and now he was being made conspicuous because he had once had a dark skin! Could one never escape the plagued race problem?
Kinda like bbls today
At their best they were gymnastic where the Negroes were sensuous.
ex-Negro.
Ha
‘Say it with Bucks’
white. Day by day we see the color line which we have so laboriously established being rapidly destroyed.
THE OFFSPRING OF THESE WHITENED NEGROES WILL BE NEGROES!
his wife was a white girl with remote Negro ancestry, of the type that Negroes were wont to describe as being “able to pass for white.”
PErfecf
thinking how easily she could “pass for white,” which would have been something akin to a piece of anthracite coal passing for black.
Lollll yes
are the salt of the earth,”
leaned over and shouted “Yes.”
For the plof ass book
bury the hatchet before they became too hungry to do any digging.
Why should anybody in the Negro race want to go back to Africa at a cost of five hundred dollars for passage when they could stay in America and get white for fifty dollars?
black blubber.
Im hatin thjs
night-gowned Knights, they were united in holy wedlock
Here’s a century
and that whenever a baby was born black or mulatto, it would immediately be given the 24-hour treatment that permanently turned black infants white.
left the race
“Well, the dime museums haven’t closed down, you know,” said Matthew.
Crazy
specter of black blood.
People were always asking each other embarrassing questions about birth and blood.
Thousands of miles of streets located in the former Black Belts, and thus without sewers or pavement, were having to be improved at the insistent behest of the rapidly increased white population, real and imitation. Real estate owners who had never dreamed of making repairs on their tumble-down property when it was occupied by the docile Negroes, were having to tear down, rebuild and alter to suit white tenants. Shacks and drygoods boxes that had once sufficed as schools for Negro children, had now to be condemned and abandoned as unsuitable for occupation by white youth. Whereas thousands of
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“C’ose yuh caint preach that white supremacy stuff ve’y effectively when they haint no niggahs.”
“Let’s not discuss a painful subject,”
unintelligible to the herd.”
the menace of the alien,
