The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-05
SOME PLAIN WORDS.

There Is a negro paper published in Topeka, Kan.. by J. H. Childers. who seems much more level headed than are many other members of his race. In a recent issue of his paper he reads the negroes e bitter lecture, part of which we copy, as 1t Is the most pointed and upvarnished statement of certain facts that we have seen, and though somewhat lengthy. is worth reading He says:
 The negro is the only one of Gods crea- lures who is really ashamed of himself: who really wants to be something other than he is; who wants to be white; who wants to change the peculiar racial con- tour of his face; who wants the kinks and curls out of his wool; who, when by some hook or crook, there chances to be a sufficient quantity of Caucasian blood to bleach out his complexion, wants to draw the line and get over into the white mans camp: who. when energy. thrift i or or pocket, wants to be white; who. when some poor old mother or father has slaved and sacrificed to send him to college, these and a few more are peculiar to our race. With near 100000 people in this country who are black, the opportunity for fakirs to play upon the weakness or
 
 telligence of our people. one cannot but be surprised that there should be so much serious demand for nostrums caicuiateu to do violence to the handiwork or oua Creator What the race needs more than the vile nostrums is soap and water industriously applied to the cuticle, ana energy, intelligence, honesty ana 1rugai- ity will make the race acceptaoie unto all nations
 We commend this language to those of the race who have the capacity or the will to look the truth squareiy in the face and to profit by 1t when they read it. It is one of the greatest draw backs to the negroes as race that they are not satisfied with the racial characteristics and features given them by their Maker, but are all the time trying to change themselves from what God intended. and to make of them selves something different from the work of Nature. They were created with black skins, kinky hair and me- groid features. and any attempt on their part to get away from those characteristics is a mistake and must be a failure.
 It is a great misfortune, morally, so- cially and racially, that there is any admixturs of Caucasian blood in the negro veins, but that Is misfortune | whi n can never be effaced. If there sh ou.d never be further communication between the white and the black reces it would requise centuries to effect a total extinction of the white blood in | the negro race. It would eventually | be driver entirely out by the continued infusion of pure negro blood, but it
 would require generations to accomp- | fish 1t.
 The facts being as they are, the me- gro should be content with his physical appearance and get out of his head | the belief that artiflcially taking the kinKs out of his hair or changing the
 hue of his epidermis will make him any less a negro, or make him any more acceptable. socially or otherwise | to the white race. He has it in his | power to make of himself good and
 useeul citizen. but he can never make
 of himself a white man, and all his
 efforts in that direction are against his advancement. When Jeremiah asked 1 "Ca'i the Ethiopian change his skin?'
 he was. asking a question which car.
 ried it's own answer, and is no less trut
 today than it was twenty-six centuries
 ago. The negroes may do well to reae
 and take to heart the somewhat sting
 ing words of Editor Childers.