The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-30
DIR. BAHl:INGEK ON NEGRO EDU-
CATION.

DR.. p. P Barringer, Of the University
Of Virginia. in his address before the
Southern Educational Association on the
education of the negro. said some things
that seem almost cruel and et>they are
facts and must be recognized and reckoned
with For one thing he said that it would
be folly for any State TO enter upon the
Industrial training of its deficient race
while the laboring class of its higher race
5 equal to any training and any effort.
I'VE cannot equip BOTH, he added. and
to equip the negro to the neglect of the
poor white would be grave political
error and an economic absurdity.''
Whenever the negro is brought into
competition with the white man there is
sure to be racial clash and the negro is
always the sufferer. Attempts have been
made at the mines of some OF the Yves
tern States to substitute negro labor for
white labor and the result was a race
war in which negroes were SHOT down.
The whites simply would not permit the
negroes to go into the town and take their
jobs away from them. This Is a white
mans country. White men discovered it,
white men settled it, white men gained
its independence and white men deVel-
oped its resources and made it rich. The
white man Will, therefore, continue to
rule it and TO enjoy its first fruits, and
the negro will never be permitted 20 take
What the white man wants for himself.
We say taat this may seem cruel, but 1t
is a fact which must be recognized and
-eckoned with
Again, DR.. Barrlnger said: ct is claim
cd that since educa ton has raised up for
this people its cwn leaders, the problem
IS solved Far from il. An education that
makes leaders at The expense Of the LED
j. a failure Every negro doctor, negro
lawyer, negro teacher, or other leader III
excess of the immediate needs OF his own
reople is 81, anti-social product, q So
cial menace. Neither IL the North, the
South. the East nor the West can such
professional man make living at his call
ing through White patronage; ana 10 give
him the ambition and the capacity aad
then blast his opportunity through racial
prejudice and caste instinct Is to com
mi a crime against nature"
Another fact, cruel though it may SEEM
The professional man with black skin
must necessarily depend upon the people
OF his own race for his patronage The
negro lawyer cannot expect to get white
clients: the negro doctor cannot expect
to practice medicine il white families;
the negro teacEer cannot expect to teacn
white children. Therefore the negro VINO
goes into the professions can only nope
to operate within these limitations. Inc
negro is an alien and he occupies an
anomalous position II, this country. 1t is
Characteristic of the Angio-SaXon race
10 absorb the foreign element that comes
in. cnd a distinguished writer has recently
pointed cut that in this capacity to mix
foreign blood with. its own and Anglo
Sax; nize il, so 10 speak, is the secret
of the success and power of the Anglo
Saxon race THIS was done in England
years before the American continent was
discovered, and ii has been done on
larger scale in America since this country
was settled When foreigners come into
The United States they catch an insp!ra-
ton from the very air they breathe and
soon become Ame:icau;zed. Some Of our
best American citizens to-day speak with
a foreign accent, and the foreigners marry
and intcrmarry with the native born
Americans and ulcir offspring show little
or no trace OF their foreign blood. But
the Anglo-Saxon refuses to amaISamate
W, tho reo-o rare Iss, vow hein- ~e-
volts at the idea, and while We arc capable
of absorbing a.i su.ts @ilu cvtio4-.-s.--.
foreigners with white skins. the negro re-
mai.:s TO this day an alien. The negro
race is u race unto itself. and the Anglo
Saxon race Will no moro mix with It than
oil will mix witt water.
IN some OF the States there are laws
asains, miscesenation. but such laws are
not necessary. Even in those States where
there IS no statutory prohibition mixed