The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-04-20
Ethiopian
Civilization
WAS FIRST IN THE WORLD *
COMMENDED BY DIR. BIZ
IN LECTURE. y Y
Truth Will Be Toll !,
when Black Man Writes His on,
History, Painted In Darhnest cox
ors BY Whites to Suit Their Own
Purposes, Claims Speaker.

baltimore, Md, Arril 19-Thct
there was no inherent inferiori+v in
any of the races Of mankind and
that tho first civilization Of the
world WAS csle in which the F1hiopian
was the chief actor and that the Me-
gro should write history in order that
the truth should I've known about him
and the white man were the conten-
lions made by nr. II. J. Brown, yof
iris city, in an illustrated lecture ON
Tie Races Of Mankind, Scientifically
considered" before the monthly meet
ing of the Ministerial Alliance Mon
day.
DR.. Brown has travelled in all parts
OF the world, has given years of pa
tient study to ethrOlogy, Psychology
and kindred subjects and Is probably
the foremost authority In the race
On chronological topics. -.--
In the course of his address the
speaker cited opinicns from Herodotus,
Strabe. Pritchard, Pickering. volner.
Brace. Neber, Baron Won Humboldt
y
in support Of his contentious.
"Hcrndotus informs u.s." said the
speaker, that the Ethiopian of his
Gay had the distinction Of being the
handsome5t and tallcst nation in the
world. and that this branch was Of
Iamitic origin from which the primi-
tive Egyptian emerged, proving cor
zation was the mother of modern
white civilization. Prior to this
epoch we look in vain, except to dis
cover the white man In the iungles
of European forests, clothed in say
age attire in the skins Of wild ami
mails, living IN holes in the ground
and tatOOing himself The Chinese
regarded his white skin as a badge of
infcriority and ignorance.
"Thc primitive Negro has been the
moldil;g factor in the worlds evantful
story In analyzing the great story
OF the worlds history from the very
depths Of its childhood up to the pres
ent, what las this balloon-headed.
sWtll-headed white man done of which
they hOust?Not only are his govern.
meats and his sO-callcl reforms fail
ures. but every effort Of civilization
under his management has been. up
TO this very hour, most gigantic
failure. In the past he has not only
been enslaved himself by millions, but
he has, in tuIn, enslavel millions
lie was for 1900 years enslavcd be-
fore black slavery began.
Ills present starus Is war, con-
quest, plunder subjugation. approDri-
alton, massacre; the strong over the
weak, the large swallowing up the
small, the little escaping from the
graSp'ng propensities of the big. In
justice standing on the pedestal, viO-
lated natural law, destroying the in
nate <EcnSc Of right. SO accustomed
has this so"callod white man become
i'm making his deceptive scheme with
his perverted sense that he invol1es
the Sacred Record "a pn10TGe his bar
barouS methods. And thus from the
white rlan's So-called Christian civil
lizatiOn Of the Nineteen and Twen-
tieth centuries, we behold the unjust.
hurni)iatiHg spectacle Of the whole
NOh'iiitll' vi HiI'tI appropriated
amcng European nations just as COOL
ly as robbing ones neighbors poclt
etbook. SO hat England France,
Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal
arc guilty Of rObbing Africa Of it's in
be, itOrs as characterized England in
taking possession Of India and Of
America being taken from the IN
| dams.
This paragon Aryar race are now
| nuaTrcling among themselves as to
how they will steal China. The bru-
tality Of modern Saxon civilization
can be only explained on the principle
| that the white man seems to be alb.
| normal in his evolution.
"1he black man has permitted the
whites to write his history and paint
| him in The darkest colors, while the
white man writes his own in the
brightest COOrS We must in the fu-
tnrc write our own history and that
Of the white also. by that means
VIC will be able 10 snow the ccntrast
| between the two and thereby get the
truth"