The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-14

I
nod for these unfortunate victims OF
russian barbaritY.
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STILL KICKING BECAUSE HE is A
NEGRO.
Professor w. L. Burghardt Dubois.
of the Atlanta University. is still talk.
ing about race prejudice In the United
states He made a speech to the
twentieth Century Club i'll Boston the
gro and Society in which lie said that
race feeling is not only tremendously
greater than ii was ten years ago but
that 1t is increasing III every WAY, and
that unless It is stopped 1t means
trouble in the United States, and in
had in mind the feeling against the
negro up North; the conditions down
South have not materially changed
and Will never change. The negro
down here Will always be tic negro.
occupying his own place. respected by
his white neighDors when he IS worthy
OF respect. helped by them when he
deserves help. protected by law in his
rights to prosper by his own indus
try, and yet always the negro, NOV.
Ing In his own orbit and when lee,
TO his own devices. content with his
lot. 1t may not be so ''up North"
Dubois said 10 the Twentieth Cen
fury Club: You do not realize how
far this discrimination goes in the
Northern cities. In the North Of the
United States it is q question with me
whether can set a meal at any time
OF day or not. 1t is question Of re-
fusal. insul; or trouble. Even in The
building where l live. send my Soc
rotary and have rny lunch brought
down simply because want to avoid
trouble" This is probabl, not true:
that Is to say. ii is true only because
Dubois wants to take his meals at
places which are reserved for white
customers II he would 20 to some
colorcd restaurant. or eating house
we have no doubt that lie would be
served precisely as other customers Of
these places are served and without
being refused. insultcd or troubled
Whv should he EXPECT to be served
where he knows he Is not wanted. and
WHY should q dining-room or rcstau-
rant catering to white people be ex-
he is just as good as. or little bet
ter than. tho white people? Doubtless.
lie is better man than the majority
of the white men in Boston: but for
some reason which we do not under
stand tile Almighty did not make him
altogether white. and nobody in Bos-
Ton or anywhere else can change this
fact. lie would not think 1t nearly
so much Of 4 burden If he would only
look al II IN the right way. and nor
Fry TO make himself and his race what
they are not.
Dubois docs not think that segre-
cation will solve the race problem; yet
that was the solution which the Great
Creator designed when In making OF
one blood all the nations of the earth,
bounds of their habitation. 1t Is true.
rs Dubois said. that the negro prob
lem lis n great human prohlem.'' and
the men and women of this race should
be recognized as men and women: but
this does not mean that they are TO
he extended any special privileges or
advantages OH account OF their race
Well behaved negroes can always get
q meal at any time of day in the
South without refusal insult or trou
blc If they Will only go to the places
where meals are served TO this class
OF customers. We suppose that it Is
The same way UP North. Why should
negro object TO eating with negroes
at a negro eating house? How can
he ind fault with the white man for
not caring TO eat with him SO long as
he does not care 10 eat with people OF
his own kind?
ATTEND THEM.