The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-11-28

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unjust and proscriptive laws, and we
are not allowed to PURSUE HAPPI-
NESS when our rights and privileges
are abridged so as to impose narrow
limits on our social activities, rel
even unto the breathing places has
the standard of segregation been set.
Segregation is positively wrong. 1t
can not be right. 1t is unchTistian-
unlawful and un-American. 1t is an
unmitigated liar which seeks to de-
ceive while it stings. If segregation
is so plainly wrong, and is directed
especially against the Negro, what
should be the Negroes attitude toward
it and those who advocate the same?
Shall we sit supinely by and allow
our sworn enemies to heap this evil
upon us without protest or any eff
fort to stop it? Or shall we fight this
evil like men and intelligent people
who have rights, hopes, aspirations,
a love of liberty and a desire for i'm
provement in living conditions? All
true men must answer this last with
a vigorous affirmative.
We must not assume a slothful and
Indifferent attitude regarding these
most essential rights when the enc
mics of the race are sitting up at
night scheming how to politely" and
''~graciously" enslave us. The enc
mics of the race will never stop the
fight on us voluntarily any more than
England would have voluntarily given
these United States their political in
dependence. 1t is natural for the OPP
pressor to go on from one crime to
another. He has chosen evil and
falsehood rather than truth, and these
become dominant motives and ruling
passions. He learns to love darkness
rather than light. Nothing but the
stern power of truth can stop this
child of evil. Let us assert now the
truth of our manhood and citizenship.
Be men and fight for what rightfully
belongs to us as men. When re-
strictive laws are enacted against us,
test their constitutionality every day,
and work as one man to defeat class
legislation, and discriminatory meas
ures aimed at our civil rights. Take
that most tenable ground that we are
real natural born Americans who
to enjoy every right that the
Constitution guarantees it's citizens. !
We should be willing, certainly, to
spend our WI money in our own be-
half when our right to live is ques- |
toned by segregation and other
harmful acts. Personally, the writer
would more willingly aid financially
a movement calculated to gain these
present human rights than sink any
amount in doubtful channels which
never bring results.
The N. A. A. C. P.
Thankfully there is an organized
body of national Importance created
especially to take up the cause of hui
man uplift in this direction. 1t is
called the National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored People.
1t numbers among its active workers
some of the races most able and Sc
we're men. Strange to say the move
was started by a few white in
dividuals who caught up with that
spirit of a new abolition for the Ne
gro and are proving to be the Garri-
sons, the Phillips and the Summers
of these modern times.
The organization has not always
been received with popular favor ow-
ing to it's high standards which our
own people do not always readily
grasp; because of different educca-
tion regarding the Negroes civil and
political status. The organization
comes with a nobler message of nan
hood and citizenship than we have
been used to listening to and some
doubted its genuineness. Some
have condemned 1t because DR.. Du-
bois is one of it's faithful and able
members. Considering this an insult |
to Dr.. Washington, whom they con-