The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-01
THE NEGRO AND HIS
PLACE IN SOUTHERN LIFE
He Must Look for His Development in the Line of
Strict Race Separation--The Constitutional
Amendment Good Thing for Him

nual address at Greensboro on Thurs
day at the A. and NJ. College for the
colored race. The following is a
synopsis Of his address:
Mr.. Daniels began his address by
reference to the changed sentiment
ton Of the the negro, which
is emphasized by the usefulness and
the growth Of such institutions as
Hampton, Tuskeegee, and the North
Carolina A. and NJ. College for the col
ored race. He showed that the sort
= Of education given to the negro ilnlne-
diately after the war was not the kind
he needed. but that industrial educa-
ton could not have been projected and
carried on then because, fresh from
slavery. the negroes would not have
thought they were getting II
they mad had to work at the forge and
with the plane. The industrial schools
came at q time when the thoughtful
negroes of the South and the Wisest
friends of the negro in the North
had reached the same opinion about
the negro education that had been held
always by the best and Wisest Southern
men.
The subject of his address. on
which he laid emphasis throughout,
was that as long as the negro regarded
himself as a problem he would lack
the incentive and ambition to make
vi himself Ill that l. poSSlD1S. -
problem is something inanimate to be
worked out and solved by an indi-
vidual, and from the days of the
F~reedn1an's Bureau up to the present
there has been so much talk about
the negro problem, and SO many
have sought to solve it, that 1t
has had a tendency to make the
negro passive and feel that his
future was not in his own
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how or other lifted up and put into
some place that he wanted by some
body's else efforts rather than his own.
The talk of the negro problem has,
therefore, set back the real develop
ment OF the negro. AS long as any race
depends pom some outside help 1t VIII
not become strong and self-reliant and
the negro, sometimes the victim OF
prejudice and oftener the victim OF
his fool friends, has been injured be-
cause he has been encouraged to sit
and wait till he is solved.
The speaker then took up
and discussed briefly the va,
problem, such as exporting the ne
groes to Africa, buying a separate
State where they could govern them
selves, determination as the Indians
have been eXterminated, amalgama-
ton. and other chimerical and i'm
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clared that they all proceeded upon
the same fundamental false principle
that had actuated those who had come
to a discussion of the negro by treat
ing the race as a problem and con-
sidering it as a whole, without IN
derstanding that the negro is a person:
hat each has a different temperament
and no solution will reach all alike,
but that the need is to preach to the
negro that his future is in his own
hands, and outside of the kindly ad-
vice and friendly assistance and eX-
ample Of q race better educated and
with more property, he must work
out his own salvation with fear and
trembling, and that dependence upon
somebody solving him as if he were
an arithmetical proposition instead of
q vital being, has been an injury to
him.
Mr.. Daniels declared that there was
no arithmetical or geometrical solu-
ton Of the problem, there was no
quick way of lifting the negro out Of
the political slavery in which he had
been since he followed the Reconstruct
ton leaders to his own hurt and the
hurt Of the South, but that it must
come about through a gradual develop
ment of race solidarity and race self
romance, which would look for uplift
through Industry, sobriety and individ-
udi EFFORT. He believed that the race
needed to care for it's own and to
welcome and welcome gladly and not
70 resent the sharp lines of deuarca-
tioh between it and other races. He
ti'eo Inc TACT that in the North. where
ne negro goes to school with white
chllofen, there is no open door for
nssio teachers and that, when a ne
9eaao lnlshed school and wished to
but =: '4s door is shut in his face.
senar n the South, where there are
has a cha schools, the capable negro
thereb nance to- teach his own 700