Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-11-18
AMALCAMATION
 IS IMPROBABLE Isaac Fisher, in Address, Tells Chicagoans of the
 Negro's Dreams. HAVE RACE PRIDE Negroes are Studying the Science of
 Eagenics, Says Pine Bluff
HAVE RACE PRIDE

his address tonight on the occasion of the Theodore Parker memorial an- niversar!es, Professor Isaac Fisher, of Pine Bluff, Ark, emphatically declar- ed that the negro has no idea of be- ing merged with the Caucasian people into distinct race type and that race equality ought not to be consid- cred by them. In part he said:
 Unfortunately for the negro, an impression amounting to positive conviction, has laid hold upon vast numbers of white Amcrlcans to the effect that the most ardent hope of the race to which I belong is that some day it may lose it's identity and be merged with the Cauvasian people into a distinct race type yet to ap- pear upon the North American Con- tinent
 With all of the earnestness of my soul, and with the conviction that this impression has done untold injury to , the negro race in the United States, l want to declare that such fusion and amalgamation do not compose the fabric of the negro's dreams. I owe it to all candor and to him whose natal day we celebrate to speak thus frankly of the position on this ques- [ tion of many thoughtful negro c:ti- zens who are seeking to justify the faith and deeds of Theodore Parker in the trying days gone by. How cas- lily we could adjust all questions which grow out of the presence of the negro in the United States if it were not for th.s potential submer- gence of the two races. But since we cannot argue away the possible. lit is our duty to allay fears by en- phasizing the fact that this race fus- ion to the point of the submergence of either the Caucasian or the negro is extremely improbable.
 Not only ;s the negro not earnest ly seeking for physical union with 1 other races, but I am glad to be able to report that he. too, is studying the science of eugenics, and is begin ! ming to discover that his own race mas certa'n great qualities which ought not to perish through the
 blending of diverse races; and the negro, in the future will most re- spectfully decline to be cast into
 'Zangwill's great melting pot. And more than this; We are developing men and women who have the broad CT vision of fife, and (ho have the courage constantly to remind the race that the color of the skin and the curl or the hair are of little moment as compared with the eternal Qualities o1 the heart; that in the final analysis race will be judged. not by the col
 or of the skn but by the equity of It's deeds. We are beginning to un- derstand that in the converse with truth, all men speak the same lan- Suage, and that in the higher and more permanent things of this world a man may have a black skin and vet ilnd room enough hereunder for all of his powers, and ought to hold ev- cry achievement wh oh he makes. sac rediy in trust for the honor and glory ol ms own race and for the good of the world. But l submit to our white friends north and south, who are dis turbed over the possibility of the fus- ion of the two races, that one of the best ways to preserve the racial in- tegr ty of their race is to make it pcs- slble for negro publicists and makers of opinion in mine to boast that there Is neither advantage nor disadyan. tage i'll the accident of color n the United States. This they cannot do at present, and they often find them- selves laughed out of court because or this fact, when they attempt to make the same fight for racial aloof. ness that you are making. Never theless, there is growing up a health. fui race pride everywhere and a comendable rac,al solidarity"