The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-06-06

what it comprehends, and or what /
is involved in its solution.
For want Of knowledge, or physi-
cal and intellectual eyes, to see what !
is actually transpiring around, and
against themselves, there are reput
ed intelligent members of this race,
who declare, with an air of fnality,
that there is no race problem.
OF course, they are without eyes OF
any kind to see that members OF
their own race are universally ex-
cluded as a race, except as menials,
scayengers and common laborers, at
the lowest rate of wages, from the
industrial life of the community, re-
CARELESS to qualification; that they
are disbarred from the enjoyment OF
political and civil liberty, and are
excluded from social intermingllng
with the rest of mankind the same as
if they were lepers.
If discovering ways and means, to
give themselves share in the higher
salaried and more honorable employ
ment; to secure equal political and
civil liberty with the members of
other races; and to acquire equal
recognition and consideration, when |
they are otherwise equal, with others
in the social body, do not constitute
problem peculiar to Announcements,
then there is no problem of any kind
for any other people in the world.
Those who declare that there is not
race problem for members OF the
Afro-American race, either expose
their ignorance or duplicity. FL
This race has two of the most
serious problems that ever confronted
any portion of the human race. Its
problems are both internal and ex-
ternal, and it is impossible for it to
solve its external problem before its
internal problem shall have been
solved.
The internal problem of the Afro
American race comprehends a bust
ness ignorance and spiritual degrade
ton peculiar to its members, who
are without business thought and
: ideas, conversations, customs, man
: ners and activities, and who are in
want of self-appreciation, self-preser-
walton and self-defense, or self-love,
) and its solution involves the finding
/. of ways and means to give them the
: same degree of business thoughts and
2 ideas, customs, manners and activi-
l. ties; and the same degree OF SELF
}. appreciation, or self-love, self-preser-
7 walton and self-defense that members
u Of other races possess.
y The external problem of the Afro
; American race comprehends the eco
u nomic political, civic and social Sc
. gregation or exclusion of its mem
= ); bers. It's internal problem was made
when in the establishment of African
slavery in this country its members
: were consigned to condition OF ig
:, norance, poverty and degradation
:. and were limited and accustomed II
~ employment to the lowest rounds O.
= industry; whose only compensation
~ was the cheapest and scantiest foot
- and clothing essential TO keep then
~ in physical condition for the highes
!, possible productive efficiency. Il
- such a condition, and founded upol
9 their right of ownership, those VIII
70 possessed their ownership demande
y and were accorded the proportional
10 share of the ancestry of the member
m Of this race, in the political and civi
a., affairs, and they we're excluded fror
4 any participation in all such matter
40 by which they were not only give
n a different economic status from othe
II. members, but founded upon 1t di
40 ferent political and civil status alst
h Such an economic, political and civ
% condition and status, combining igno
g ance, poverty and degradation, coul
nd not escape developing an abnormall
,g low and cowardly spirit in then
or which united them, both economical
e) ly and spiritually, for association wit
n the rest Of mankind not in their COZ
IS dition, and such is the condition an
status of their descendants, the Afro
Americans today BY which it
& seen that the political, civil and socit
status of the ancestry Of the Afr,
or American race was founded upo
N. their economic condition and spiri
III ual state which remains the politica
bo civil and social status of their d
w scendants today, who are in the SAN
70 economic condition and spiritui
nd state, and there is no possibility {
a changing their peculiar politica
or civil and social status before chan
oe ing the economic and spiritual cond
si- ton and state upon which it
ON founded. Therefore the Afro-AmeT
Ie- cans first great problem is the sol
on ton Of the problem Of changing h
he peculiar economic and spiritual Co
he dition and state, which he has bot
nd the legal and physical freedom an
ability TO do, but which his want
business knowledge and self-love pr
10. vents him from doing
1t is apparent that the Afro-Amer
can is in such business ignorance tn
in he knows little or nothing of the vail
he of his labor of what he produces,
,at what he consumes beyond quality al
quantity. Owing to his want of bu'
zee ness knowledge with him it is on
1p- how much or how good in all
on business transactions, whether he
Co sell his labor or products, or PIT
de chasing his consumptions, he seldo
is if ever considers what the profits
ad. losses on his business transactio
hts mean to him in his low conditi
lat and segregated state
ct Even his literarily trained memb
Jay appears not to have developed SUI
ing cient business consciousness to &C
of ceive that it is the profit which othe
We make on his labor, on what he sci