The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-31
AN UNwIsE NEGRO PROFESSOR.

q Professor Dubois is negro professor
of good parts in the negro university at
Atlanta, Ga. He has written before on
the negro question and the Messenger
reproduced one Or more of his views
that seemed to US judicious and sensi-
BILE. He has an article in some northern
syndicate. and he discusses how the
negro fares 'up north" We have not
seen Ills production, but ind a few
points from him in the Constitution.
The paper says that he "naively admits
that the negro is circumscribed in his
associations, opportunities n ambi-
tions by the unacceptable fact that he is
a negro. That handicap clings to him
in the north as certainly, if not always
as heavily, as in the SOUTH" Every
body knows that who really knows any
thing of the conditions in the north.
These conditions have been accurately
stated times without number in the
southern dailtes, Sambo is no more
countenanced and sought after 'up
there" than in southland. The profess
sor says that the problem Of work. the
problem of poverty, is today the CEN
trail, battling problem of the northern
negro" What Il singular truth that is!
Beyond a few offices given to the ne
groes in Washington, what else have
the people of the north given them?
They will not allow rivalry of the
whites in the various callings in which
they might serve, nor will they admit
them to their fine churches as members
or open their doors in their homes to
them. Their sympathies foam and
gush and overflow but it is for the ne
gro a thousand miles away in the SLAM
dered and abused south. But the pro-
lessor does not improve upon acquaint-
ance. He is blinded by passion and
prejudice, is a sorehead and a false
counsellor. He gives the negroes bad
advice The Constitution says that this
negro professor says: .
1T is wrong to tell the negro to stay
south, where he can find work." He
would prefer to see them go up into the
broad expanses Of starvation and the
densely populated Potter's field of the
hui II v d lldIuls pClICNS liS III
dustrious, common n negroes of the
south will thank him for advising them
to exchange work for ostraciSm and un-
failing rations for a pauper's funeral,
ever in the north.
Professor Dubois says that in New
York and Philadelphia, for examples,
the negro is too handicapped by race
prejudice to make much Roadway!
Can we dare credit this declaration?
sDonn nrairdina' AGAINST the negro in
the north"
There are now probably a million ne
groes in the northern states. There is
not one of them who fills a place he
cannot find in the south to be open to
him. He is shut out from many places
in the north that he finds open to him
in the south. Then look at the bitter,
freezing, killing climate If we dis
liked faithful, worthy negroes instead
of having all good will n favor for
them, we would indorse the unwisdom
of the negro professor at Atlanta and
them all to pull up and
hurry into the frozen and inhospitable
of the north. The Constitution
puts it:
Certainly the veil is being removed
from the face of men and the negro is
beginning to understand how truly fair
words butter no parsnips.' His friends
in the north are his friends only so long
as he remains in the south n makes
the instrument of their evil
feelings toward the white people Of this
section. They want plenty of niger
in the hotels, in the theaters, In the
in the parlor cars, in the
streets cars of the south, but they do
not want any Niger in their W
.iouses, in their .kitchins, at their work
benches, in their trades union and pro-
f~essions." -