You want to know what they did in slavery times! They were doin jus what they do now. The white folks was beatin the niggers, burning em and boilin em, workin em and doin any other thing they wanted to do with them. Course you wasnt here then to know about nigger dogs and bull whips, were you? The same thing is goin on right now. They got the same bull whips and the same old nigger dogs. If you dont believe it, go right out here to the county farm and you find em still whippin the niggers and tearing them up and sometimes lettin the dogs bite them to save the bull whips. Us old folks, they dont count us. They jus kick us out of the way. They give me modities and a mite to spend. Time you go and get lard, sugar, meat, and flour, and pay rent and buy wood, you dont have nough to go round. Now that might do you some good if you didnt have to pay rent and buy wood and oil and water. Ill tell you something so you can earn a living. Your mama give you a education so you can earn a living and you earnin it jus like she meant you to. But most of us dont earn it that way, and most of these educated folks not earnin a livin with their education. Theyre in jail somewheres. Theyre walkin up and down Ninth Street and runnin in and out of these here low dives. You go down there to the penitentiary and count those prisoners and Ill bet you dont find nary one that dont know how to read and write. Theyre all educated. Most of these educated niggers dont have no feeling for common niggers. They just walk on them like they wasnt living. And dont come to em tellin them that you wanting to use them! Alice Johnson, Ex-Slave, 601 W. Eighth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 77 at time of interview*
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 00:10:00 +0000
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