The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30

cousin testified Richards winked
at her and motioneu to her
Richards denied this.-Wednes-
day Post.
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The above clipping from the Kan
sas City Post should stir the heart
of every manly-uprightNegr in
greater Kansas City and it should be
a source of pride to know that we are
developing a class of young men who
do not fear, regardless of the odds
to protect the womanhood of the race.
He alleges big burly white
man ogles and winks and insults a
colored girl as many of them have
done before in a crowded street car,
! feeling secure that whatever he does
will be endorsd by his fellows and
that no punishment will come to him
on account of the cowardice and the
inferiority in numbers of the Ne
groes present. But in this case a
mere youth, a pupil in the high school
imbued with the courage of a deter
mined fathr and mother resents this
insult, and cuffs and kicks the big
burly masher until he cries for mercy
and the youth is arrested by the rep
resentatives of the law, taken before
the courts and fined for defending
the honor and the peace of his rela-
tives. Had the situation been re-
Versed and it had been a drunken
] h. l.
only would one white man have as
saulted him but every white man in
the car would have felt it his bound
en- duty to have administered a blow
or kick to this vicious enemy of So
ciety. And instead of the assailant
being fined on the presentation of
these facts, he would have been liber
ated with words of praise from the
court and its attaches and the culprit
would have had administered to him
the severest penalty upon the statute
books.
And yet what can we expect in
these days of prejudice and racial
hatred? 1t was only few days ago
that Police Commissioner Reynolds
is alleged to have said in discussing
the case of police officer on trial
for shooting a white man and a Ne
gro, Il will not take the word of any
Negro or a number of Negroes
against that of a whit eman." So col
ored men if this is the sentiment of
those who are sworn to administer
impartially the law, then it is our
duty regardless of consequences
whether We are fined, go to prison or
die to protect our women, when they
are right against the insults of any
man white or black.
} Kenneth Oden comes from one of
the most cultured, industrious and
, respectable families in this state and
inherits all the finer instincts and
!. high ideals of his father and mother.
But he can ill afford school boy as he
is, to pay out five dollars and costs
at this season of the year for no 9TH
er reason than having defended the
integrity and honor of women rela-
tives so the Sun believes that the Ne
groes of greater Kansas City should
rally to his support and should in
stantly and enthusiastically raise not
only enough money to reimburse him
for the fine but to enable him to fin
ish his studies in the high school and
pursue a course later in some of the
universities or colleges where man
hood and honor is esteemed and re
spected. We start this collection
with one dollar and call on every
other Negro in Kansas City to give
anywhere from five cents to one dol
lar to show this young man and al
other young men of our race that We
appreciate their courage and man
mood in matters of tnis kind. We
shall publish a list in our next Satur
days issue of all those who have con
tributed to this fund and every
Church, school, club, fraternal organi
cation and individual should contri
butte to this high and laudable cause