| Show A question to ruzzie puzzle over ile he was a I 1 likely looking afro amer ican ican an and as he boarded the elevated train at twenty eighth street attracted no small amount of attention he be took himself to one of tho the cross seats facing the rear of the car As he settled himself comfortably one of the two male passengers seated opposite said eaid ka 1 his companion in what was evidently intended to be an undertone but which was nevertheless plainly audible do your people permit colored folks to ride in first class compartments in in public conveyances what the reply to the question may have been will never be known As for the occasion of the query he did not betray by so much as t the movement of f a muscle or the quiver of an eyelash that ho he had overheard what had been said but just before bleecker street etwas was reached he straightened himself up and addressed the inquirer dis yore yere aint no question of the Fifty ent mend intend ments he said 1 I knows right plain dat me and my race has all de rights ob de white peoples to ride in dese yer keers so long as we got de noney and haves ourselves so dat aint de question but what I 1 would like to have hava you hemmens tell is dis how kin a man be colored when hes born bom to so andes and as he stalked out of the tho carille car the passengers ill all looked at one another and wondered wonder ed if they had been given a now new problem in sociopolitical socio political conomy to puzzle over new york times |
