The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-11-07
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1918.
Segregation.


The matter of segregation as re-
lates to Negroes is becoming a nat
ional issue 1t was begun first in a
local way but with the advent of the
Wilson administration it has taken
on national scope The ablest
minds Of this country are giving this
matter serious consideration. There
are some white people, north and
south, who want to see the Negro
treated fair. There are others who
are not concerned about fairness to-
ward the black man. But the most
dangerous feature of the whole affair
is the great mass of white people
who are allowing their prejudices to
blind their judgment
Segregation is a mean ana con
temptible thing when practiced
against any race, but the Negro in
this country has situation very diff
ferent from that of any other race
or nationality The Jews are dis
eliminated against; the Irish were so
treated at one time; the Italians, the
Chinese and the japanese have all
received their rebulfs at the hands of
the American white man, but no race
or nationality of people have been
legislated against in this country IS
has the Negro. Segregation to the
Jew simply means that he will be
Disseminated against in his social
life, but the Jew boy is not barred
from working at trades, he is not
commanded to drink out of separate
cups and use separate toilets, neither
is there a discrimination against him
on the public highways. He can bug
a farm wherever he chooses; in fact
the segregation against white races
by the American white people is very
limited, and just as soon as the PEG.
pie of a white race can gam In wealth
and intelligence they are adopted into
the great American family.
The Negroes case is far different;
as he increases in intelligence and
as he accumulates wealth the louder
the cry that he must be segregated;
they must have separate coaches for
all Negroes on the railroad trains
there must be separate departments
in the street cars; Negroes must not
live on a farm adjoining a white
man; they must not work at trades
in factories along by the side of white
men; he must not live in a house
next door to a white man; all that
he has and all that he hopes to have
must be separate and distinct from
that Of other people Under these
conditions we fail to see where segre-
cation can benefit the Negro. On the
other hand we fail to see where Ne
groes working by white people in
factories or living next door to white
people in cities or conducting q
farm in the country between white
men can injure the white man in
any sense.
Segregation does not inspire a peo-
pie, and it is not attempted with that
aim in view This damnable prac-
tice was not thought Of it was an
established fact that Negroes would
some day stand shoulder to shoulder
with the people of other races along
all lines of material progress. Moth
ing daunts his courage. Mobbing
has not done so. Jim Crowism has
failed, and now a last resort his enc
mics are attempting to put up the
bar Of segregation. Negroes will
never accept segregation as a fair
and humane treatment; it may be
done, but Negroes have too much
sense and too much pride to accept
it as a just due Segregation does
not contain a semblance of the social
equality bug-a-boo but is a deep laid
scheme to check the progress Of The
race along material lines