The Seattle Republican., 1902-05-16
AFRO AMERICANISM


I be lending a willing hand to the
stronger nations of the world in assist
ing to eXterminate the Negro race
The French government, with it's
armies of we'll trained soldiers, is do
ing its utmost to exterminate the
blacks in Northern Africa, while Eng
land is doing the same thing in South
ern Africa, the United States is en-
! gagged in a similar business in the
Philippine islands, as well as in the
Southern States of the United Statse,
and now comes Nature and, in one fell
swoop as it were, sweeps them from
the face of the earth by thousands.
Martinque's Women.
1t is said of Martinique that the
towns of the island possess some of
the most handsome women in the
world, and having been schooled and
reared in the France proper they re-
turn to the island, bringing with them
all OF the French customs and habits.
and owing to the ease with which one
could live on the island they found
time and means to dress in the height
OF fashion and to pose in equally as
tastdlOus customs as gay Paree itself.
The white citizens are the real owners
OF the islands, and have accumulated
vast fortunes, either by commercial
or agricultural enterprises. and thew
had both the money and the desire to
make st. Pierre and the other towns
thereof complete limitations of the
parent city, Paris. and this they did.
Josephine Creole.
Though there are a great many more
colored than whites on the island. it is
said that there is quite a bit of race
prejudice, so far as the white women
are concerned, and they absolutely re-
fuse to intermarry with the blacks.
The same, however, was not true with
the white man, so goes the story, as
they freely intermarry with the blacks,
and this has been going on to such
an extent that there are many thou
sand mulattoes, or, as they they are
known in those Southern countries.
creoies, wifo for beauty and even fash
ion surpass theier white sisters, for
they, too, have been educated and re-
lined in Paris. While history does not
exactly record it as a fact, it is never
theless known to a great many per-
sons, and especially to the French, that
Empress Josephine, the wife of the
noted Napoleon, was a Martinique Gre
ole. She was a most beautiful woman.
and when in her teens she refused to
marry French nObleman because her
black nanny" and black NANNY in
fact, who was something of a sooth-
sayer or fortune teller, predicted that
Josephine would be woman of great
power and influence and the wife of a
king. She eventually went to France
to complete her education, and while
there married Napoleon Boneparte
the Corsican, who afterwards became
emperor of the French government,
and Josephine, the beautiful creole
girl, was crowned empress.
Another Southern Fool.
Governor Davis of Arkansas recent
ly pardOned Andrew J. Thompson. q
Negro, from the state penitentiarv.
with the understanding that Thompson
should at once leave the state for Mas
sachusetts and there make his home.
He was prompted to do this because
ne recently visited Massachusetts and
heard the South terribly abused for
mlstreating the Negro as it was doing
and ne added in his pardoning proclaim
atlon, If Massachusetts wants the
! Negro | will send her one" Massa-
chusetts nor the North in general is
not hankering for Southern criminals
be they white or black, but Massacbu-
setts would prefer a hundred times
over the Negro criminals of the South
10 such blaten-mOuthed bovines as Ben
Illlman Of South Carolina and Jeffer-
son Davis of Arkansas. There are a
great many Negroes in the peniten-
tlarles OF the South that are there on
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