Again, for a black man in the 1906 South, there was a right way and a wrong way NOT to look at a white woman. The correct way was to slowly and unobtrusively turn away from whatever direction the white woman was approaching and stare down at the ground with your hands behind your back until she safely passed by. That was the respectful way to do it.
This would prevent the uncontrollable black-savage urge to snatch the white woman off to the woods and viciously rape her. This of course would render the white woman dead to society. She would be ruined.The exact wrong way to do it was precisely the very way they did do it.
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