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WHY THE NEGRO IS BLACK. 163XXXIII.WHY THE NEGRO IS BLACK.ONE night, while the littleboy was watching UncleRemus twisting and waxing some shoe-thread, he madewhat appeared to him to be a very curious discovery.He discovered that the palms of the old man's handswere as white as his own, and the fact was such a sourceof wonder that he at last made it the subjectof remark.The response of Uncle Remus led to the earnest recitalof a piece of unwritten history that must prove interestingto ethnologists." Tooby sho de pa'm er my han's w'ite, honey," hequietly remarked, " en, w'en it come ter dat, dey wuza time w'en all de w'ite folks 'uz black blacker danme, kaze I done bin yer so long dat I bin sorter bleachout."The littleboy laughed. He thought Uncle Remuswas making him the victim of one of his jokes ;butthe youngster was never more mistaken. The oldman was serious. Nevertheless,he failed to rebukethe ill-timed mirth of the child, appearing to be altogetherengrossed in his work. After a while he resumed:" Yasser. Pokes dunner w'at bin yit,let 'lone w'atgwineter be. Niggers is niggers now, but de time wuzw'en we 'uz all niggers tergedder."