New-York tribune., 1906-06-10

lection to its The Negro should not be called
this does not distinguish him from the brown. the
yellow and the red men, called-the Malayans,
of the United States Census Bureau all these races
are grouped together as c9lored and this is as 1t 1t
sometimes is, he is the only man among us who is
We who call ourselves white are not white; we
are brownish or pinldsh. as the case may be-
the black man" because not all fUii-blooded Ne
groes are black either in this country or in Africa
and the octoroon constitute considerable able pTopore
Sq al maks of the nd by
means the most significant; though the most OBJ
vious. of these characteristics.
The Rev. BENJAMIN MARKLEY NYCE presi-
dent of Talladega College. Taladega, Ala:
Negro" is the natural title and the most ac-
ceptable
The Rev JAMES GRISwOLD MERRILL presi-
dent OF Fisk University. Nashville. Tenn:
I agree with Booker T. washington that the
ply because ffnd that this is the name hy which
all my friends of the race prefer to be called
MARION J. VERDBRY, president of the New
York Southern Society:
agree with Booker T. wasbington-"the Afro
Americans ought TO be called Negroes I hold this
stitute one OF the universally accepted i've funda-
mental divisions of the human race, and an ETH,
breeding remain pure, 1 do not think that birth
place can blot out or even becloud a mans an
mixture of bloods. however. necessarily de-
succeeding generations be so compounded that
nothing short Of quanttative analysis would de-
EDWARD OWEN. commander of the Confed-
crate Veteran Camp of New York:
agree with Booker Washington
WILSON L. GILL. president OF the Patriotic
League OF New York City:
I favor the name "colored people" believe
1t is preferred by that race.
The letters from Negroes include the following
JUDGE ROBERT H. TERRELL of Washing
ton:
Until several of leading newspapers began
to the word ''Negress evidently with sinister
country. had never given any serious thought to
5 race Ga 6od 6 ihf m @ OF have o@g9
felt that Negro" with capital N was the
today employed by the best friends OF the col
ored man. without any idea of opprobriun or in
curate designation OF ali the people classed under
t. And the same Is true Of the term W. AngI Rat5
Negro" and Anglo Saxon" have certain virility
But I shall be forced to Join the ranks Of those
who repudiate the word Negro If the white press
word yT repusive to C eoored people Of all shades
because of its offensive connection with the auction
are most persistent in its use intend It for the
feminine of that other Objectionable term DUCK
and not OF that good, wholesome word Negro
E. A JOHNSON. professor of law. Shaw Univer-
sity. Raleigh, N. c.:
I agree with DR.. Booker Washington that the
naon Of onr peope in this coun n becan
we are all full biooded Negroes. to be sure, but
than any other The term 'coloredS is meaningless
and leaves US at large in the o-sd sea Of scis racial
The term Afro American" is suggestive OF an at
descent and casts q slur UPON it, II fosters The
idea OF the infertority of the race. which is an
whom we are trying to imbuo with self-esteem and
selt-respect.
THE REV. JOHN w. E. BOWEN, professor Of
Historical Theology. Gamman Theological Semi
nary Atlanta, and Editor of The Voice Of the
Negro:
Some would call US Africans. This term refers
ethnographical region. An African may be white
classification of the races the term African" had
simply ethnographical meaning. Bernier was
Europe. yellow in Asia and blacks in Africa, Lin
naeus was the first to attempt an ethnolosical
Is CTeP nov So Vincent tuf Desmouns Kant
torial application; When, they come to the eth
by literary consent is applied to the black peoples
of Africa BY twist Of logic or by rhetorical
synonymous with the term Negroes
Others would call US AfrocAmericans This term
sensible; It is an hybridity in philosophy and his
is not racial term It is a political word.
Still Others would call the Colored People -
OF all the racial terms applied this people, this
Is Of the most colorless. In the first place.
there is no such race as the colored race. There
are large segments of mankind who are cOlored.
The census classification of all persons in the
United States colored who not white in
cludes Negroes Indians, japanese. Chinese and
others.
Then there is the name Negro" This is the one
we should accept. Originally and philologlcally
speaking, the term ,'Negro, meant dark or black 1t
ferred to color to-day It refers to race and not
race. 1t is safe TO say that not moro than 20 per