The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-10-16
the RACE PROBLEM.
To the Editor of the Ocala Banner.

aiaiSlcS III ycui P'PSi N |
question and your request for dis
cussiOn of il through its columns. /
During the past three years | have
had opportunity to devote "a little
study to the development of this
problem in both north and south, and
it is my opinion that an adjustment
of the difference in views of the two
sections will have TO be effected before
the question can be amicably set
tied.
The two points emphasized most /
vigorously by the north in regard to
the southern negro are: first, that he |
is not being educated second, that he |
does not enjoy the social rights and |
privileges that he should enjoy. The |
north argues that as soon as the south |
educates its black population and
meets it on u footing of social equality, |
the graveness of the situation will
disappear, and we can arrive at a
pesceable solution Of the question
without difficulty.
1t does not need a second thought
to convince one who has any know
ledge of the south's position in this
matter that the arguments are based.
either upon ignorance or desire to
"make the balls for the other fellow
to fire."
AS brief answer to the first ac-
cusatiOn let us see what the south is
doing in an educational way to adj
vance her cOlored inhabitants. We
find upon investigation that she has
upwards of 10000 educational insti-
tutions, including schools, normals,
: colleges and universities, for the
education of the negro exclusively,
and that there are over 100000 en-
rollments. This certainly does not
! look like an educational boycott of
D the race. Further, as point for our
I northern friends 10 think over, we
!, quote from the Encyclopedia on
n Social Reforms, book compiled by,
e We consider, one of the ablest author.
n tiles on this subject in the United
q States, as follows: "There are more
Is signs of improvement in the negro in
G the south than there are in the
north"
, In answer to the second accusation
3 i. e., mot enough social equality!
~ we will say that social equality Oh
Vi mutual association Is impossible. The
g one won't permit it and the Othe
doesn't-or at least shouldn't-wan
it. No intelligent person of either
~ race favors social equality and its in,
III evitable result, smalgsmation. Civil
lizatiOn in the first ages of its devel
III Opment was constantly menaced b,
the threatened supremacy of tn
Vi black race, and it was only afte
many hard fought battles and lon
years of struggle that the advance c
of the tribes of Africa were checked
7. But, without resorting to history, w
have abundant evidence in our ow
al time that the mixture and inter
he marriage of distinct races results i
.as low, degenerate offspring, As an e1
ample of this fact we point out SOut
n. Amenca. No race prejudice exis
d. there. Since the days of its discover
NJ miscegenatiOn has been tolerated.
no But to bridg our subject back hOm
IN We find that the people of the nOrtl
,at when it comes to following their ow
advice, are as lOathe to recogni
la social equality as the people of Il
urt south. In recent years there HI
ark been extensive emigration of negro
of from the southern states TO the nOrtl
I'm eastern states. One of the places
the which this influx of black populate
ell is most noticeable is Philadelphia.
the race question has been broug
home to the section of the count
which has been so Jealous in co
demning the south for the manner
fire which it has treated the colOred ma
de- The opponents of the so-called "cau
( of OF the negro" now have opportuni
The for practicing what they preach i. {
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