Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28
Zangwill's Melting Pot Can
Have No Reference to
the South

pictures the United States as great crucbe into which all
sorts and have been thrown and
eventually he perfectly blended and pendidy balanced
evolved therefrom.
ing it Mr. zangwiI engaging and interesting not convinc
Poets proverbialy write most mpressvely of things they
know of-indeed the children Of a poets imagination in
varably inevitably he a poet which Mr. Zangwi
is are Dereet in form and substance To- the poets mind
could say that Mr. ZangW would reject
with and indignation at least of themnot only
expressed and implied in The Melting Pot but more
pecaly in recent striking interview based upon that play
which carried in the Hearst papers generally
Particularly in the and alphabetically not other
wise in the other sectons the following statements from
Mr. Zangwi culed from the body Of his interview, be
sidered with doubt and fear and some Impotence.
No doubt there instructive antipathy which tends
keep the white free from black blood though this
antipahy having been by large minority in all
the many periods and all the countries of their
guity it equally certain that there at work forces of
attraction well as of repulion and that the
negro the Melting Pot Of America will not fail to act
"A musician like Coleridge Taylor is despicabe
product of the Melting Pot while the of genius
to like Henry 0. Tanner whom the writer has
been privileged to lnow-men like Henry o. Tanner the
painter and Paul Laurence Dunbar the poethow the po
tentiahes of the without white admxture; and
as men OF this stamp are capable OF attracting cultured white
wives the tusng process beginning at the top with types
like these should be far less unwecome than that which
starts with the dregs of both races
Eventually the negro may disappear from this nation
there getting mad with Mr. Zangw for he WELL
perhapsbut he will not be assimated into amalgamated
with it racially.
blending of the blacks and whites that MIR Zangw thinks he
observes simply are not there
The mulatto is NOT symptom of racial amalgamation he
is symptom of racial destruction Along
his way dwells obiteTation
But it neither the desire purpose whites
of the United States of the South peases to DESTROY
the negro race such part of it may be located therein
The South at least willing to make ample for the negro
to furnish him the of supporting himself happ
ness and contentment in making himself useful and desirable
neghbor and friend
BUT NOT TO HIS REMoTEsT VISION OR HOPE DOES
OR RACIAL EQUALITY!
The negro capable Of many things purely negro-and
the achievements of Henry Tanner and Paul Laurence Dun
bar-the latter poet even as Mr. zanew sto prove this
Both splendid specimens the negro at his best in
eleotuay are fubooded without drop OF white blood in
Why then be entirely sensible about this matter and en-
persstenty ALL negroes emulate unswervngy the
racial characteristics of these men rather than having cited their
full blooded worthness suggest them in the breath
Mr. zangwill does the sinister and the FATALLY MISTAKEN
idea of intermarriage with the white race?
In editorial in The Georgian John Temple Graves
took occasion to reasser his clear understanding of the Souhs
and the Nation attitude nowadays toward the negro and
(Mr Zangwi may consider this curous the editorial
praised from end of the country to the other EQUALLY AS
ENTHUSIASTICALLY BY BLACKS AS BY WHITES
Separating surely the negro as race for all time from the
The which so long held currency in the South was
that the negro had qualifications for living competing
with the dominant and superior raceat he complicated
all of their problems of industry and society and that
wise thing to do was to help him to enter another country
where after two hundred years of contact with this people,
he might work out his destiny by their counsel
right
That idea has entirely passed away. Every thinking
man now peheVes ht SO long S 7N Republic endures the
white and the black Will dwell together in the South
1t was therefore both logical and humane that more ad
vanoed and better developed as a matter of pol
ICY and prudence help the negro and develop him along the
best lines and cooperate with him every worthy measure
He must build up the negro to the highst conceptions
OF his duty TO HIMSELF AND TO THEM and establish
the understanding that they live with him. the
white race must help him to be worhier of citizenship and
association
There plainly stated that he who runs may read is the
sum total 81 the white man Is burden IN this nation.
II seeks 70 t the negro TO his best and saton-to
make OF him entirely within himself important even neces
sary part Of society but suggests his thought of
amagamauont philosophy OF kindness and consideration
and carries no hn 81 that refinement OF CRUELTY THAT
SUsPENDS. EVER so DIELY, ON THE HORIZON OF THE
NEGRO HOPES EEE RAINBOW OF SOCIAL or RACIAL
EQUALITY TN EaI5 C0UNTEyl
ana .o . aea John Temple Graves on the one hand
ana Booker r Washington the other who must be followed
IN seeking to adjust the problem rghteousy and not Is
IaeI AangWl For the latter honestly mistaken
ne may be- is mistaken Tie less surely!