The Denver star., 1914-05-09

son and ostracize Phillips
All this might be beside the mark if had already
have made of mudsls for the feet of this West
accusation made against victims of slavery Did
they call us inferior halfbeasts? We nodded simple
es and par shdrea smiled and ess
stone at the bruised breasts of wives and daughters
Did they of laziness 4oooooo sweating struggling
half paid and cheated 2t of much of that We
oked at sad and We told chicken storet get
aims.
And what the result9 We got friends" do not
beleye people had many friends the Amer
Negro today He has nothing but friends" and
What to be friend of the Negro9 Its believe
folk elieye that he is Mr. Dooleys charming phrase
black people have been ynched burned and mua
ed In to the the he %
disturb the good President of these United States be-
cause the wonder is that .here is SO little killing!
the old battle of the better and the best Thewors
foes of Negro manhood day those compromising
loaf They want the Negro edueaed but the South objects
to Negro colleges Oh. wel then high schools: but
dear Then industria training but the South objects
training considerable number Of Negroes for industry
servants and field hands anything long is educaon
Then and The Crisis rise and But Our friends
he light and say: Now, now Giy the oeasht OF the
That's precisely what we intend to do For twenty five
denial Of manhood rights to black men in America is the
crying disgrace ofhe century We have wrongs deep and
bitter There local and individual exceptions:
there mitigating circumstances there much be
there much be said and for the
of Americans of Negro descent these things
true
We denied education
/ We driven of the Church of Christ
We are forced out of hotels theatres and public places
We are publicly labeled like dogs when we travel
We can seldom get decent employment
We are forced down o the lowest wage scale.
We pay the highest rent for the poorest homes.
we cannot buy property in decent neighborhoods
We held up rdicule the press the plat
We are dsranChised.
We are taxed without representation.
We denied the right choose friends or to be
chosen by them but publicly oursef social
parahs or be suggestively kicked by the Survey
In law and custom women have rights which a
white men S bound to respect
We cannot get justice in the courts.
We are lynched with impuniy.
We publicly, continuously and shamefuy nsulted
from the day of birth the day of our death.
about the truth in order to make come grappe
with the phiosopy of evolution and to make people
feel ugly by telling them ugly facts
Few admire Mr.. Dole personally than the editor
of The Crisis Mr.. Dole is the OF what the American
of the future be- fine in feeling dedicate touch sens
tive the subtle beauties of the world But Mr. Doe feet
the way we exs mot
and murder He and Chas. Edward Eliot and Woodrow
Wilson and millions of others have given
Ito lynching except by silence!
Who tried harder than the Negro and his friends"
the lie for social betterment? We have lied about
South that this for the
backness of faces Oh the South the
tried friend of Negroes the South them educated
1.-The ynchng South loves black mammies
and bure them handsomey the little playful antics of mob
are but ebutions of Ango-Sexcn the
faults of poor white trash who do not count Moreover
those who dispute these statements are either meddng
white Northerners impudent Negroes who marry
white
All of this we black folk ami friends" have been