The colored American., 1899-11-25

Mr.. J. T. HARRIS.
resuIts to both races in America-mofe
e.pecially to the IolOred race.
The mistakes referred to are as fol
,oWs: Take the case of selecting an un-
dartakeT to bury the dead. We findthat
the line is here strictly drawn by the
white race on this subisct all over the
United States. There is no white fami
u Of snv prominence anyW here in
the United States that would be dis
Uraced by allowing a cOlOred under
taker to come INTO their homes and
handle and bury their dead. And, al
tbougb this strict line has been drawn
by the whites, saying in many words
TO the cOlOred, "Stsnd back, we do not
want anything to do with you Negroes
socially" yet we find nearly every col
ored family has been blessed by the
hand Of Providence and has gotten to
gether 8 few thousand dollars in bricks
and mortar-we find them, as they cali
it, honuriug their families by intrud
ing on the white undertaken by COM
pelhHg him to take their money and
come into their homes and handle and
bury their dead, although the white
man tells him that he does not want
anything To do with him socially.
Well this puts me more in mind OF the
monkey than any thing else that L know
o. for the more the monkeys master
beats and kicks him around the more
the monkey gIins and loves bis master.
1t is found that this form Of forcing
social equality on the whites sgalnsi
their wishes, is done by what is knO wn
in the colOfed race a. the supper tens"
and If you will ask them why they do
these Things, they draw long breath
aud say, ''Oh we'll, you know that the
cOl0Ted undertaken Is not up &c late; he
cannot give yOu as good )b as the
white man can" And they go on TO
say that the white man can better af
nod 70 wait on them; If they have
not the money, they can get four,
five or six months to settle their bills
while the colored man cannot wait.
These lame excuses are simply dOdges.
There ale cOlOTed undertakers in the
District of Columbia and elsewhere " no
can compete with any white under
taker in the country and this fact is
we'll known. There are four or five that
I mention; namely, Mr.. James III
Wnslow, James H. Dabney, Jesse
Barnes, George Campbell and Nc
Kenzie Scott. If these men cannot
give you reasonable time TO pay funeral
bills, then get some one that will But
this Is not the case. The upper tens"
have not that race pride, that fidelity
and patriotism which belong TO all rae es
ami tribes on the globe.
Just to think of il! There is my
daughter as highly educated as mOss Of
white girls and just as respectable ss
any white lady IN the country, aud yet
while size lives, IL white man would
feel himself utterly disgraced to make
ssouaL call on her land espt cially 10
the day ime) and accompany her
through the stIeets To The chur n But,
IS soon as this daughter is dead, for the
sake OF dollars al cents, We fad the
While man coming into the colored
home with a face on him as long as
your arm, so to speak. tt is Is what
may Ue termed the forcing and buying
OF social equality on the part of the
coIoTed lace and hypocricai acceI tance
o. the same on the part of the white
race long as dollars and cents are in
sight
lie same thing is prscticed on col
OIeu merchants, e0Iored banks. aud ali
O'neT business engaged in by cOlcred
"eh' Take the Capital Savings Bank
u + stree [, which has been doing busi
IeSs Iof fifteen or eighteen years There
DAS never been anything like failure
"uu IL pays as much interest as any
o'Hst bank ia the city; and yet there
1e thousands of colored cIuz Us he.e
~, NO would not think f putuug a dol
- 'hat bank including c0lored
r.. t'-al'ohs. hen you speak with
- - Soout this bank, they draw up
-'i' Shoulders aud say to me, ~ ell,