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...serve Negroes (though sometimes they get sued for refusing) ; in the heart of dark Harlem, Negroes are hard put to find jobs in stores where they are welcome buyers. Many a labor union, dominated by white majorities, excludes Negroes outright or does as little as possible for colored brethren after collecting their dues...
...These hills are jist dirt waves, washing through eternity. My brethren, they hain't a valley so low but what hit'll rise again. They hain't a hill standing so proud but hit'll sink to the low ground o' sorrow. Oh, my children, where air we going on this mighty river of earth, aborning, begetting, and a-dying-the living and the dead riding the waters . . .?" Author Still restrains even this. His boy hero goes to sleep; another begins inattentively to whittle...
...whole, Bernard's Brethren was a not very lively job of escutcheon-polishing. Fortunately Bernard got his mitts on the MS before it was published, and characteristically proceeded to make comments in the margin, restoring family grease stains as fast as Charles rubbed them out. His marginal scrawls were incorporated into the book, are much the most amusing things in it. Samples...
...BERNARD'S BRETHREN-Holt ($3). † Sir Eyre Massey Shaw of the London Fire Brigade. Apparently an accident "deprived him of the full powers of his manhood...
Like most of his white brethren, Walter Merguson has yet to see the front. So far he has had to content himself with visits to French colonial encampments. But he has influential friends in the Government (including the Ministry of Information) who are not blind to the service a Negro correspondent can render France's relations with her colonies. When black troops go to the front, Walter Merguson expects to go with them...