[Ads-l] "Stay black and die"

[Wilson Gray]

According to street lore in The Lou, this is the sole obligation of a black
person to the larger society. On a humbug, I Googled it to see whether it
was peculiar to Saint Louis, because...

Youneverknow.

Collier's Illustrated Weekly - Volume 96 - Page 82
https://books.google.com/books?id=tj4fAQAAMAAJ
1935 - ‎Snippet view
As one old Negro said: "Well, Lawd, dey's jest two things I know I gotta do
and dat's stay black and die."
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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