The chief reason for such regulations, however, is to assert and emphasize white superiority.

Half a dozen black nurses with their charges may sit in the car reserved for whites, because they are obviously dependents engaged in personal service.

Without such relationship, however, not one of them would be allowed to remain.

It is not so much the presence of the negro to which the whites object but to that presence in other than an inferior capacity.
his is the explanation of much of the so-called race prejudice in the South: it is not prejudice against the individual negro but is rather a determination to assert white superiority.

So long as the negro is plainly dependent and recognizes that dependency, the question of prejudice does not arise, and there is much kindly intimacy between individuals.