The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08
Ultimate Solution of the
Negro Problem Sug-
gested.
Continued from Ninth Page.)

feebly equipped by birth and circumstance
of environment, suddenly deprived OF re-
straint hitherto imposed by higher race,
and upon which it has been dependent Tor
direction, but now forced to lean upon ITS
own impotent resources. A race Of human
beings with instinct for self-preservatlon,
coupled with a perverted sex-diathesls as
the only incentive to continue in existence.
The primal instincts of coniugal and ma
ternal affection subjugated by a WIDE
range of sub human. The paradoxal sex
uality appears at this stage of human life
whereby indulgences become ever more
and more the incentives to overlooking and
passion. rather than towards qulescence.
There are creatures whose only purpose
in life is to propagate their kind. "''"'r
birth. growth lfe-mssion. and death III
hoary age, are comprised by the bret
span of three score minutes. The measure
of life, however is not to be computed by
its length of days. Consciousness meas
ures life with an accuracy which forces
mathematical calculation from vital tests.
In the negro race the lower levels of
consciousness are the most influential be-
cause of their senurial prerogatives. But
there is little in human experience out OF
which to weave an empiric psychology or
metaphysics of the sexual side of human
existence. The fairest and most profound
thinkers have assumed that sexual e1-
tremes belong to the age of awakening
consciousness, or nascent intelligence,
stage of incipiency to moral and mental
development.
It appears that the negro sex-diathesis
is the most prominent and obvious factor
in the physical preponderance over the
will. That the largest display of sex
diathesis is concomitant with the smallest
development of the psychic element may
be accepted as a rule. The influence of
morality and intelligence dominate the
conduct of the lighter races. and there
fore the dominion is essentially pshychic.
In the negro the psychic differentiation is
withheld, while the organic sex-develop-
ment continues.
The negro. by some demonstrations IN
the recent past. seems to be living over
the instincts and habits of his animal
sub-human ancestors, and in his extrelnl-
ties of moral delinquencles corresponds
with the point of arrest of development.
Sense repletion is the earliest evidence OF
decadence. and finds its commonest graft
ication in beastiality and qualification.
The conditions of qualifications are side
by side with primitive instinct coupled
with inferior intelligence. The results ap
pail us. and they are not mere accidents.
They are the sequelae to diathesis and
not mere chance.
A perversion from which most races are
exempt, prompts the negro's lnchnations
towards the white woman; whereas other
races incline toward the females of their
own. In comparison with the Indian, the
differentiation emphasizes the negro sex
diathesis. The Indian lust was for blood
the negroes for beauty. Some self-consti-
tuted philosophers have threatened to take
the negro by cross cut over the centuries
which have been necessary to the evolu-
ton of the white race, and place him i'll
power and position for which he will not
be qualified in a thousand years. This is
a wrong which cannot be condoned.
To make the negro the equal of the
white, a vast eomplexity OF interests and
physical elirninations. inconeelvably re-
mote must visit him. Phsychic elimina-
| tion has scarcely begun IN the negroes.
Moreover, there is a Equitable but not
quite hopeless inertia negro's soul.
! The native opposition Rertia to vital
J force Is not counterfeit 1ctivity The