Still Against Us

The Planet addresses the Times statement of “the second generation” of blacks being “infinitely worse than the first.”

The Richmond, Va., Times which now never loses an opportunity to say a mean word for the colored citizen, belittling his efforts and misrepresenting his aspirations, under the caption of “The North and the Negro” cites an abstract from the address of that prince of viiltiers, Dr. Paul B. Barringer of the University of Virginia and says that these utterances are approved by the Medical Board of New York.
It affirms that the second generation of Negroes are infinitely worse than the first. This declaration applies to the white man as well.
It talks about the morals of the Negro, oblivious of the fact that they are but a duplicate of the morals of the white man.
The only difference is that the white man in this country has become past-master in the art of deception. He paints vice, virtue, and drunkenness, sobriety.
The great trouble which the upright colored men are having is due wholly and solely to the bad examples set by some of the white folks.
Even their gambling dens and whiskey resorts are backed by white men who draw the shekles at the expense of the white people and ignore their vices. This will bring prosperity and will lift us in the scale of human civilization.

“Still Against Us,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed May 12, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1246.