DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
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Them that thinks they is awful easy to handle<br />
out of a natcheral respect fur white folks has got<br />
another guess coming. They ain't so bad to get<br />
along with if you keep it most pintedly shoved<br />
into their heads they IS niggers. You got to do<br />
that especial in the black belt, jest because they<br />
IS so many of 'em. They is children all their lives,<br />
mebby, till some one minute of craziness may<br />
strike one of them, and then he is a devil temporary.<br />
Mebby, when the crazy fit has passed, some white<br />
woman is worse off than if she was dead, or mebby<br />
she IS dead, or mebby a loonatic fur life, and that<br />
nigger is a candidate fur a lynching bee and ginerally<br />
elected by an anonymous majority.<br />
Not that ALL niggers is that-a-way, nor HALF of<br />
'em, nor very MANY of 'em, even--but you can<br />
never tell WHICH nigger is going to be. So in the<br />
black belt the white folks is mighty pertic'ler who<br />
comes along fooling with their niggers. Fur you<br />
can never tell what turn a nigger's thoughts will<br />
take, once anything at all stirs 'em up.<br />
We didn't know them things then, Doctor Kirby<br />
and me didn't. We didn't know we was moving<br />
light-hearted right into the middle of the biggest<br />
question that has ever been ast. Which I disremember<br />
exactly how that nigger question is worded,<br />
but they is always asting it in the South, and answering<br />
of it different ways. We hadn't no idea<br />
how suspicious the white people in them awful<br />
black spots on the map can get over any one that<br />
comes along talking to their niggers. We didn't<br />
know anything about niggers much, being both<br />
from the North, except what Doctor Kirby had<br />
counted on when he made his medicine, and THAT<br />
he knowed second-handed from other people. We<br />
didn't take 'em very serious, nor all the talk we<br />
hearn about 'em down South.<br />
But even at that we mightn't of got into any<br />
trouble if it hadn't of been fur old Bishop Warren.<br />
But that is getting ahead of the story.