The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-21
Reply to a Recent Address
of DR.. Winston.
HIS CASE NOT HOPELESS
What Industrial Education Has Done
For the Race.
NEGRO TAKES NATURALLY TO POLITICS
The South is the Home Of the Negro and Al
He Asks Of the White Man is 10 be Eh.
cOursged a Little ard Allowed 10
Paddle His Own Canoe.

coursgeda Little ard Allowed 10
Paddle His Own Canoe.
To the Editor Today there is practi-
cally no social intercourse between the
two races excepting such as exists be-
tween the negroes and the most degraded
whites" are the words Of DR.. George T.
Winston. president of the College OF
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, in his lee
ture before the American Academy OF
Political and Social Science Saturday. 1t
is surprising that man of his ability
and experience should thus brand a
baby race as he saw fit to term the
negro, struggling to hold its own race
distinction and at the same time make
good men and women out Of its boys and
girls
II is true that there is no social inter-
course between the two races and per-
haps there will never be any in this
world, for God created US and made the
distinction, and both sides are keeping
it up and have no desire to make
change 1 do not understand why it
should be charged that all negroes are
seeking social intercourse with the most
degraded whites. when it is only the most
degraded negroes who seek such inter
course, and the whole negro race regret
this very much. Why should it be charged
that the wives and daughters Of our best
negro men seek the companionship in a
way with the most degraded whites? We
ask that the better class of white people
of which DR.. Winston is a part. ALLOW the
better class of negroes to retain their So
cial distinction, build up their own social
circles, and that instead Of trying to de-
grade them, they say a word to encour-
age them.
There are many negroes who recall
with pleasure the days pictured by the
speaker, the days when the negro chill
dTcn played with the white children as
master and slave, and it was not always
regarded then by that little child that the
negro was human being, but was often
regarded in the same light as a little
child playing with a dog. We recall
many of us the days when we we're adj
dressed by the better class of white peo-
pie as Uncle" and "Auntic," and did not
consider it a disgrace, for such was our
training and neither negro nor white man
was hurt by it, do not blame men like
the speaker in question for believing
that the negro is an inferior being
created solely to serve. Had not the be-
lief of the negro's inferiority come down
to him from his ancestors? Had not his
grandfathers so declared it, and his
fathers emphasized It? Had he not
learned it in the books which be studied
~ ts.
newspapers and magazines? Had ne not
heard it proclaimed from the pulpit2 lad
he not been so instructed IN the Sunday
school? Had not the evenings chats
around the tireside even directed to the
same end? Yea, in every step OF life.
from the cradle to the grave. from moth
er's breast to deaths embrace. il had
been told him, engraven. as 1t were, with
a pointed steel upon the tablet OF lis
mind and conscience, and like a stream
Of subtle influences permeated and IN
filtrated every part OF his being. Was
it then any wonder. that the white nisn
could walk with lofty mead into the holy
sanctuary--the church Of God-with the
negro's soul and body in his pocket. so to
speak, and thank God that he WIS act
like other men?
] have a high regard for The white man
OF the South, because he protects his
wife and daughters. They can walk the
streets OF the towns and cities with lofty
heads, feeling that they have the protec-
ton Of the men Of their race, and this
is true The man who dares 70 insult
them. IS soon labeled for msnsions in the
skies. and must bid farewell to this
earth The Southern white man has the
superior advantage He makes The negro
stay on his side OF the house, and think
that in all fairness he should Skinny on
his own side Womaphood must be re-
spected, and the sooner this is learned
by us all the better it viii be. The be
gro does not condone crime and 1he let
ter class OF negroes are acXions that
every criminal be punished by law. aud
they will help to bring to justice any
8cnd Of their race. and they ask that
when negro woman is outraged ~ the
nest degraded whites, spoken OF IN the
lecture, that the lawmakers those who
execute the law. see to it that such
ie nds are punished.
The sons Of that trusted negro uncle
who protected your families in the days
of slavery are willing to protect them
today. and the better class OF negroes OF
this country would rather die than insult
womanhood. They will protect the wives
and daughters OF the white race today.
The South Is the home Of tao negro.
and he considers the white people his
friends, and will this be kept up? If the
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