, 1880-07-17
WHY NOT AFRO.AMERICAN ?

To tbs Editor NJ 1he ChtENg0 Tribune.
COLpMnuA, o., July 14.-Nnt lnl,ch reflection Is
required to fevcal hat tho spIttsuts commonly
applied tn tue coIorea nun uru inapproprlAte!y
tint thoy do mt cth,ooulcMily HAnw vito he IA.
The EngllshmRn comes fr1In EnRlntitl. tho lri@h-
nun Geos soM ircana tho v. SSot sM tsn st 5rn
Scandinavia, thu FrenchlnAn frD,a FTa,ite. CHI
nuso from China. ltHlsans from italy, but the
surely lis lame sheds no liabt; hcuco lnappr":
prnte.
s1 Sst s ,ea hs %pfnE s ok s sGe S tss
fair intnc. those several 4ppell4tions slliilsru.
but do not to,.iay. u should ,nt ~, "nexro.. ~
With u racc called lcgrocs. but ,9 b!otM % nf
A5ncric0n c!tixons coNrses IN thelr rni.a. "col'
Sat %it ea proproty s; IL ss No s4,Sint~ % lieHsS
tho further use Of those terms s not Justified by
We knoW tho Immortal bard Of strattor.on-
Avon, ntter it1l4irn4 what Is En Il lIul1e, ll.'s
said a rose would smell " swset BY my nther
wnl,il cnntins,o Ia lnsiew tho check with Greco
dto trara woro # called honoysckte or Or M tube F.
fssS psIle sSopd Md se @ 'Al pracr NV ca %' HIM. a
submit TINT Afro Americans IL tho prnier ,,an,n
for tho saolo cltizcns Of tho United stntes @ Ot
America. For tho American trIts.H hlS !HehEu
frun tho Angles und Saxuns, nRd cHlls hl1ilstlf
Anglo-.s stHurican. We tratc our ltnanEe tt1,n
waro hOrt, In Anlrrica; hcncn we nro islisps1t1l-
bly, Afr intricanS. Our sntlctudc III not I'll.
gsaera at pHcnns y %o osssa iss @ ena.e r ="
i,Hpusslhitv, ill,iI absurd conception. N,lt wo
submit our rrAsons briefly: "
Firat-1iccauso, rs have shown, VIC aro Afro
Scrnmi@..n adjective mny bo derived from
Afr-Amnricans, M A(rn-A American migration:
whIln EolurGA nHi hliH1AtioH ia not Mu!Ulasat'le,
-innn must DO posscsslvo, mans, tn co ss1nl-
ITir.i-nocnusU its tAfro-Amertcan, length IS
lin objection WheN scandinavian. South Atier-
cnm, Australian. Aslatio Turk. ote.. nr" ,isSa.
OH IL recognition nt Dllr true pGHIEItP.
FUN-fseuauso hp!tyve that t,A,n1nrtElnn-
ing tlY utizons Of tho Now World. mud indicating
nun thnt wu are numbers Ut thu HrtHt American
NnsloEl. and will greatly contribute towGrd over
throwing tue bArripr " r.co md color caato
Submitting those vlsws to our roaiors, nm
the Afro. Ancricatt Il. J. WAniSt,.
Hut ucK1u simply nloans bucl, and Gomez
fro,n tho Latin niger, which tho Spanish, Fort,i-
gucse nnl ltAllnna pronounce NeRrn. nAd tho
Fronoh utgrt-sltnply u black nlln. 0r hlnck
RICO. Frctl DonRInss inslsts on using tho trrt1
blaek man hecnuso 1t II pltiner Engllsh th.1n
negro, which Ia BpAnjsh for tho Latin niger,
,yhenco comes tho American term Of contempt,
UTggcr. Hut We ngreO with Mr.. W1r!IlH that
Arrt,-A Amorcans would 10 lust ns proper VI
Irish Autcrtcuus or GcrMnA-AmCricAks II 1t
wuro applied to hlaok lncn Of AfrIcWn birth who
had become nalltralized cItlzena Vt Amcr'ca.
Wu do not dcsiguato any persons Ut European.
descent hut of Anurcan s,ntlyIty as knlopo-
Amor!caus or Teuton.Anlerleans. All nNttve
sborn ar0 called Americans. II OF European
derivation shoy ara called whitcs an,l II Afrfcnn
blacks or negroes II mixed, mnAttocs. II u
not likely that thiB habit Of designating
porso1,s Ut Asrlcan oxtrautIon will bo chnllg1A
beyond tho prusont complimentary or dclsca.e
Erase VI "colore1 ponson."-Ep.l