The Southern white man or white woman of the better class is likely to protect and help many negroes at considerable cost of time, labor, and money, but the relationship is always that of superior and inferior.

If a suggestion of race equality creeps in, antagonism is at once aroused.
It is the fashion to speak of the "old-time negro" and the "new negro." The types are easily recognizable.

One is quiet, unobtrusive, more or less industrious.

He "knows his place"-- which may mean anything from servility to self-respecting acceptance of his lot in life.

The other resents more or less openly the discrimination against his race, and this resentment may range from impertinence to sullenness and even to dreams of social equality imposed by force.