The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-23
As1ALGAMArIoN OF THE RACES,
The Only True solution Of the Negro Pro.
blemn Says j.. c. Reid OF Minneapolis.

The Only True Solution of the Negro Pro-
blem'' Says u c. Reid OF minneapolis
Before Mr.. Booker Washington
dined at the White House with Presi-
dent Roosevelt, he was the idol Of the
South, and the only Negro leader who
possessed the key to the solution Of
the race problem-so said the South.
Now Mr.. Washington is eminently
the most hated leader in all the South,
all because he responded to the private
hospitality Of true man, such as our
good Southern white Christians (?)
claim to be. We can readily observe
that no industrial education; no high
er education; no political rights; no
feared social equality race problem
are right. These many falready stated)
solutions are only contributory to the
main. All actual labor in any Of the
efforts put forth along the many lines
develops the race. both individually
and collectively, to higher plane of
perception that true race antagonists
might be observed. But what are the
true solutions of the race problem
Amalgamation! Not by choice of
either race, but by the inevitable and
unholy consent of lustful Southern
white men and their victims. South
ern white people say that the races
will never amalgamate. Stranger
things than this have happened in the
worlds history. What will the white
South say of the 100000 offsprings
from black mothers? Is this not
this amalgamation pure and simple?
The white South is pleased to call the
products of it's deplorable criminal
acts, victims of miscegenation. They
recognize no virtue at all. Is it a
greater crime to eat at, white, mans
table than to rob virtue of it's most
precious Jewel? Can such a state OF.
affairs always exist and be called
right? No! The fact that the South
has wholly ignored legalized amalga-
nation will not pervert the object
which the South fear. Illegal unholy
amalgamation will bring about the
very result that they now tremble at
the thought of. No race or individual
can get away from the seed they have
sown; in other words, the thought and
actions performed. l don't think that
my opinions are in advance of the
times, but if there is any such thing
as truth and justice, before the begin
ming of the next century the South in
the aggregate will be tinged with the
very blood that they now hate so per-
sistently. The sign of the times dem
onstrates this fact to those who look
well into the future, judging only from
past revolutions. No law made by
man can prohibit what legal apologists
call miscegenatiOn, but is in fact ANAL |
gamation. Natural laws must without
question fix the affinity of the black |
and white races. The time is near at
hand when the white South must reap
in a whirlwind the damnable moral |
degeneracy sown in the black race. All |
of the burning, lynching and shooting |
negroes will not change the law. You
must reap what you SOW. The one
hellish thought that haunts the South |
ern white mans brain. is the possibil- !
ity of theS<Negro assuming the same
liberties toward his women as he (the |
white mani once assumed toward !
black women. It cannot, will not, nor |
shall not, be otherwise than all human !
beings that seek to become spokes in !
the great wheel of progress must'l
taste of the vinegar and gall that they |
administer unto others. If the laws of |
intermarriage remain intact forever 1
such will not be sufficient to arrest alb
sorption of the races, either legiti- |
mately or illegitimately The white |
and black races Of the South cannot |
hope to live side by side, sharing each |
others prosperity and adversely, with
out the ultimate end be amalgama-
ton. 1t is impossible to stay. the hand
of destiny. No Intelligent Negro
cares aught about white associates, So
'cially or otherwise, when they are not
hl1t met fo,
human beings to relegate forever the
products of mutual association, in the
capacity of a servant or otherwise, as
it is for us to separate soul and body.
Absorption must be the ultimate end.
AS the scale of human progress and
equality attempts to even up matters
between the races, when both races
will recognize no difference in human
blood and the hand of destiny point
the Southern white man to his duty,
then he will cease to fear unlawful
amalgamation on the side of the black
men. But be We sure that conditions
cannot be otherwise than synonymous.
This problem will probably battle the
intellectual skill of many generations,
who desire to escape the so-called dis
honor of black and white amalgama-
ton, but is it not far better to do the
right thing along this most essential
line and reap what the maker of men
intended, than ITO ;dishonorably pro-
dnce the fruits Of amalgamation and
lynch and burn Megroes because fear
OF the same Will enter their minds rel
atiTe to white women? The hand of
destiny ALREADY points to the oppres-
sors of fate. Yours for the race,
J. C. REID.
St. James church. Minneanolis REV L