Read—
Some Southern Snapshots
by
George S. Schuyler
in the December issue of
NEW MASSES
In this article Mr. Schuyler, a Negro writer, gives shortsketches of Negro-white incidents in various Southernstates. Negro boys and girls, men and women, insulted,arrested, hounded out of town, beaten, molested, andkilled for imaginary, or at the most, ridiculously smalland superficial acts. New details of the same old stories.
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Foreword
FIRE ... flaming, burning, searing, and penetrating far beneaththe superficial items of the flesh to boil the sluggishblood.
FIRE ... a cry of conquest in the night, warning those who sleepand revitalizing those who linger in the quiet placesdozing.
FIRE ... melting steel and iron bars, poking livid tongues betweenstone apertures and burning wooden oppositionwith a cackling chuckle of contempt.
FIRE ... weaving vivid, hot designs upon an ebon bordered loomand satisfying pagan thirst for beauty unadorned ... theflesh is sweet and real ... the soul an inward flushof fire.... Beauty?... flesh on fire—on fire in thefurnace of life blazing....