Timothy B. Tyson Quote
A local white bootlegger, idling under the store awning, accosted Major Stem. Why’d you call that damned nigger woman ‘Mrs. Shaw’? he demanded. In those days, white Southerners did not use courtesy titles for their black neighbors. While it was permissible to call a favored black man Uncle or Professor—a mixture of affection and mockery—he must never hear the words mister or sir. Black women were girls until they were old enough to be called auntie, but they could never hear a white person, regardless of age, address them as Mrs. or Miss or Ma’am. But Major Stem made his own rules.
Timothy B. Tyson
A local white bootlegger, idling under the store awning, accosted Major Stem. Why’d you call that damned nigger woman ‘Mrs. Shaw’? he demanded. In those days, white Southerners did not use courtesy titles for their black neighbors. While it was permissible to call a favored black man Uncle or Professor—a mixture of affection and mockery—he must never hear the words mister or sir. Black women were girls until they were old enough to be called auntie, but they could never hear a white person, regardless of age, address them as Mrs. or Miss or Ma’am. But Major Stem made his own rules.
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