The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-11-25
CONDITION OF NEGRO
SUBJECT OF ADDRESS
Former Member of Congress
Speaks TO the Northeast Texas
Commemorative Condi-
tons in America

ly a well known colored politician,
who was elected from a South Caro-
lima district to congress, but now
resident of Chicago, addressed the
conference Friday. He said in part:
Bishop and Members of the Con-
4 ference: | am glad to be in you,
midst and look upon the leaders OF
the race. | want to assure you that
we have no one in congress now.
but as the bishop has said, we know
the road, for some OF us have learn
ed what ii takes to send a man to
the United States congress Some
I think that all that is required to
send man to congress is so manv
votes, but under the white mans
civilization it requires more, for the
/ white mans civilization is bakd
1 upon wealth and those who have
wealth are those who must rule. !
! And when our people get these facts
/ in their minds, to control their /
communities, possess wealth, etc, /
/ then they will send their representa- |
] tive back to congress to remain until /
I judgment day. All that ia required is |
the time it takes to learn how II
you are going to stand for anything !
in this government there must be
back of you the same thing that is |
back OF the white man There IS so |
much we can do, so much we would |
do, but our environments are so
clouded We feel discouraged We
have not gone back to nature and
natures God to reason out the true
condition. There are two conditions
in America, one for the white nan
and one for the black man. CON
dition of poverty, of degradation for
the black man; for the white man
and his race, there is established |
customs, habits, manners, and then
he pointed down to the low eondl-
ton and said God made it that way
That is false philosophy that we
have got to overcome as a race, be- |
cause no other race win get busy to |
take it out for us. We have got To
understand that the environments
| that were made for our people and
the white man were for two kinds
Oh beings. Whlle we DellGVe the Sd ~
ing of Thomas Jefferson Is everlast-
ingiy true, that all men are eausA.
but while the black child and the
white child were born equal. the,
3 were born under different condi
t tons Then we as a race have got Il
, find out what it takes to make on'
. man equal the other. We understand
? that child is born into these things
W. wi Nc he xyb G
) man. My deaEsfrfends. the home
cannot give the child more than IL
/ has We always give the child what
1t has. Whatever the thoughts. hab-
| its. etc, of the parents be the child
gets it without any effort Then We
| cannot hope the parent to teach the
child more than he has. III this be
true, Just as It took art to put it in |
that condition, il Will take art to |
take it out If we go to a Chinese
school and ask a boy to draw man,
he will draw man like a Chinese.
If we go to white school and ask
white boy to draw a man, he VIII /
draw a man like a white man, but 1
IL we go to America and ask a back
boy to draw a man, he will draw
white man And what does this
mean? 1t means that this system OF
training IL artificial. The Afro-Am-
erican is displeased with himself
and Is trying to beat God in making
himself over If it does not make |
him feel as proud of himself as |
white man, then that school is |
/ failure. The white man understands !
/ the spirit OF man and that he is di- /
visible into three men, Intellectual /
physical and spiritual There is one /
| kind of food for the physical man, |
| bread water and exercise; for the (
/ intellectual man, exercise for the I
| brain, languages, etc; for the splr- I
| ituaI man, excitement of pleasure or !
displeasure. Until that spirit of our
| race was cursed, there was no slaV- /
| cry. Then If you feed that spirit on I
white spiritual food, you Will make 7
( white spirit and black body, the !
white man develops love for his own
race by purchasing playthings OF MS I
| own race for his children. But as
race, we have not studied psycholo- I
| gy and whatever we purchase we
want IT to be just like the white ,
mans. If you go to the store anu /
i the merchant shows you BLACK
doll, you say: 4 don't want that old
black thing And as soon as you arc ,
! gone the merchant abuses you to ms .
| partner. That brings contempt Tor I
our people and develops in the ne I
gro child an admiration for the I
white man. In some | am pleased 20 Z
/ say that nineteen out OF twenty /
cases, | have had the hearty coop I
Grafton Of the ministry from Michi- /
gan down to where ! am
| In replying to him, the bishop .
said II want to say TO eX-Congress-
man Murray that l wish ! could talk
some more, but my time is out.
have had many thoughts in my nina
as relate to race development tan
| I do not mind saying it, | never
/ ~ many q thank