The Afro-American., 1895-11-02
HUNDREDS KILLED OFF
While Millions Continue to Climb.

THE NEGRO SHOWS BUT LITTLE DIS
POSITION TO PERPETUATE HIS
TYPE BUT SHOWS TENDENCY
TO MARRY AMONG THE ooLoREB
CLASS.
What is tho future Of the Afro
American? By the term Afro-Ameri-
can is meant all Negroes born 10 Amer
lea ami all other persons born in Amer
lea who have more or less Negro blood.
Mr.. TiIlman, during discussion in the
Constitutional Convention in South Car
oina, said that in that State there are
great many Afro-Americans having a
sixteenth Or less Negro blood, who live
on terms of social equality with whom
they also freely intermarry. OF course
his statement Is no revelation to most Of
us for we all know that a great number
of our Afro Americans are constantly
vanishing among the whites. In fact
the vast majority OF those who are suffi-
GENTLY removed from the colored type
10 excite no particular comment when
among the whites are to be found there.
They marry and rear families among
the whites and gradually vanish. AS in
South Carolina, SO in all other States,
little is said against such marriages. The
whites have little prejudice against
"tinted'' Afro-American who has grown
UP among them and who mingles in
their society.
There is another class Of slightly col.
ored persons who refuse 10 lose them
selves among the whites, and who marry
persons Of about their own mixture and
thus perpetuate the type referred to last
week. There is still another class which
marrics black and thus produces the
brown or Negroid type now so com
monty sc6D. A careful review of these
facts gives hint, at least, what Is TO
be the future so far as the typical Afro
American is concerned. The absence
Of any systematic data renders scientific
conclusions impossible bht there are
many reasons to believe that the various
tyy es Of Afro-Americans will continue
to intermarry, and that in one way or
the other, there will continually be pro
duced issue resulting from the coming
together of whites and Afro Americans.
There are also reasons to believe that
the white blood already mixed With Ne
gro blood, and that which will continue
to be mixed will at last produce an en-
tirely new type. There is no great inn
migration of Negroes, and therefore
there is no way to preserve the pure Ne
gro type. The Negro shows very little
disposition to peEp thate his Type, but
does show a decided tendency to marry
among the colored class. This is why
the Negro is 50 rapidly disappearing
and the Negroid type increasing.
The same thing would happen in the
case of the Afro-American as happens
in the case Of all other races which comes
to America were it not for social preju-
dice. The whites refuse to regard the
Negro and colored people as social
equals. This disposition is entirely due
to the fact that the whites know that
among social equals intcrmarriages arc
csrtain to take place. in order that the
white woman may not love the Afro.
American, the white MEN studiously de-
grades bin He is forced to Jim Crow
cers cte, and il tA u IS, Een&ae8Ff9fdd While
men know that if Afro American men
could mingle freely in society that their
color would be forgotten and their per-
soual qualities would be recognized.
Were this the case there would be as
many white women succumb to the
charms Of Afro American men as there
are white men who fall in love with
Afro American women. ~
It is well-Enown that apart from The
purely vicious intercourse OF the races.
there are hundreds of white men who
love their Afro American mfstresses bet.
ter than they do their wives This was
sh 'wn in South Carolina when the gal.
liant Mr.. SmaIl5 put the test.
The fixed intention of the Southern
whites is to preserve such social condi-
tons az will forever keep the race sepa-
rate. To this it has been frequently Oh.
jected, "two races, socially distinct can
not live tremendously side by size under
the same government"
Many who have uttered this cry felt
back of it desire to advocate social
equality, but none have the courage TO
speak out Others who have raised This
objection, together with many who have
fe,t its force, have sought to anticipate
trouble by advocating "African Emf
grafton" Thus they hope to so reduce
the number of Afro Americans as to
make the future safe. Others of less ia
teligence have simply INDUCED IRA.
tional feelings aud tried to kin off the
race.
There is still anelIaf class of South
crn white men who d6 not give credit to
Il c ohjectionfe fsrfedsto. but who be-
lieye in the words Of Prof Washington:
ave shall sta d BY sou with devotion
that 10 foreigner can approach, ready
to lay down our lives, ii need be. in lie
ferse OF yours In ali things purely
social. we can be as separate As the fin
gers, vet one as the hand in all things