The Denver star., 1915-06-26
ON !.
NAME OF: R RACE
P. |. Carmouche Says Negro
Is Misleading Term.
SCORES JOHN E. BRUCE.

Western Man Delivers swsspins opin-
ion on Question Of Great Human In
tsrsst-Quotss From Eminent Al.
thoritiss and Concludes That We Will
Be Absorbed by the caueasians.
By p. l. cARr1oUcHE.
Detroit, Mich.-With all statistics at
Bruce "Grit's" command to show how
many blacks. part blacks, mulattoes.
| Quadroons, octoroons and those beyond
the oons in the United States and all
ancient and modern ethnology and all
dictionary definitions combine to show
what color or any other part of
| man was necessary to create an Ethi
opian, then an African, then Ne
gro" and some more such names. they
do not and cannot truthfully and sci
entifcally apply to US today as Bruce
"Gnt" would have it apply. Notwith-
standing the words of Saul of Tarsus
that God hath made of one blood all
nations of men," somebody tries to
| change all of that when 1t comes to
our race.
Yes, Brother Bruce Grit" because
it is not long, long way to the final end
or outcome-caused by the presence of
the Ethiopian or African" or NEGRO"
as slaves in the United States-as to
who will be brown or white. but that
time will come, and 1t is coming faster
than we are willing to admit. There
fore, Is it not more proper for those
who recognize and accept this ancient
chronological defamation Of the laws or
word of God and dictionary definitions
of the word Negro" applied to us to de-
fend its propriety or improperly with
no malice, disrespect and contempt to-
ward those who differ with them?
think SO. II Mr.. Bruce would have
given this subject his most careful
| consideration-and l know by my care
full considerations Of his writings that
! he Is a deep thinker and a great writer
he surely would have been more
charitable to those unfortunates whose
ancestors became the victims Of the
least of the white slave masters" in
the United States.
am fifty-four years Of age, and as
long as I can remember, knowing the
full meaning Of it, have from race
pride looked upon 1t with sorrow for
the blacks. all because Of the transfig-
uration Of the African. part of him,
his color. which I never considered a
disgrace. Thus It was from that very
day when the first African woman and
man, too, landed on American soil.
The white man by mistake did not In
tend him to forever remain a Negro
In the United States. There and then
his history and all which pertained to
him as a race in Africa would be q
dead history to him In America. It is
so no matter how We twist 1t. !, do
not profess to be an ethnologist nor a
scientist, but I have suficient reason
ing faculties to lead me to believe that
my way OF reaching objection to the
term Negro Is proper.
To the Washington Bee, Dec. 20.
1913. and the Seattle Searchlight, Dec.
81. 1913, contributed to those papers
1.-The Curse Of Slavery In the United
States" in which repudiated the
word Negro" with no prejudice nor
malicious intent to the black man nor
disrespect and contempt to the part
blacks, mulattoes, octoroons and quad
| rooms.
Necessity u well known to the white
man. He knows that 1t knows no law.
and when that time comes ancient die
tionary definitions on that cognomen
Negro" will disappear In the United
States. 1t will be another destruction.
a modern destruction Of facts pertain
ing to the Ethiopian age. Annesley
Burrows article In the Detroit Journal
of Jan. %, Cant Stop Relations OF
Whites and Blacks by Law" was Il
''stunner," in perfect accord with con
ditions as they now exist. When
Bruce ''Grit" uses the word never
on the term Negro" being abolished
| he is In error, and time is proving 1t.
possibly to the dissatisfaction of Mr..
"Grit" and other colored men who ac-
cept the term as 6naL Time is prov.
ing. too, that this new model is still In
| process OF construction and reconstruc.
ton.
| As black. with no distaste of 1t, as
1t used to be, this modern refinery Of
an American nation Of its own liking
in the United States has partly made
Of the old casting-the former African
slave-a most wonderful specimen.
through breeding and cross breeding, Of
the human family. II made such men
as Fred Douglas, p. B. 8. Pinchback
John NJ. Langston, Ira Aldridge. T.
Thomas Fortune. T. T. Allain. b. K
Bruce DR.. L. Rudaues, R. L. Des-
dunes and q. Mccoy. It made the
Hon. Crispus Attucks Of Revolutionary
fame. and It partly made Booker T
W0Shln0tOn because he IN not black
How could I begin to name the won.
| derful specimens OF men It made and
those that are here now by the thou