The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1915-03-27
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ALL RACES EQUAL
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ALL RACES EQUAL
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peace. Bat VINO would claim this as
q peculiar racial traitf
Equally, the antagonism to the Jew,
at least during the last seventeen cen.
turtles, has sprung from a religious
source When the Jew was stamped
before the world as the crucifier Of
God or Savior, and the religion embody.
Jews began; and, fed from the same
source, they have continued to this
day.
Racial Difference a Pretense.
Of course, the Christian world will
not acknowledge that 2 religion that
at the same time engendered and fos-
tered an implacable hate for an en-
tire human group, even though it has
done it indirectly. Hence the pseudo
scientific explanation that anti-Jewish
prejudice is the result Of natural race
antagonism.
do not mean to say that everyone
who at the present time manifests any
prejudice against the Jew, especially
In social relations and intercourse
has the religious stigma that has been
word Jew, having once been made a
BY wsrd by the Christian world, is,
sufficient. The world il full of AFRO
giant snobs, pretenders, people who give
Themselves airs, would be aristocrats,
who are always on the lookout for some
ono against whom they may draw the
social line, upon whom they may look
down as an inferior. And the name
Jew fills the bill. But snobbery is
not a racial characteristic either. IT
ts thoroughly human trait. We ali
have our snobs and arrogant fools.
can immense percentage Of snobs, I
believe, is to be found in every rank
Of this mortal life,' says Thackeray,
who is quite an authority on the sub.
Tho Crime Against the Negro.
It is this immoral desire to have some
One who may be looked down upon as
an inferior, and may be kept in an in
tude, that is largely responsible for the
attitude and conduct Of the majority of
this nation toward the colored race.
Here, indeed, we may speak Of dis
tinct race. In certain physical traits
this human group Is marked off from
al others. But what Of thatf The
colored man. too, so our religion teaches,
is Of Adams offspring; and being Of
such descent, he, too, is created in the
1 Se Of e H espsse toG
growth and enlightenment, a the soul of
every other human being. But setting all
religious doctrine aside, what does the
history Of this race teach usi Being
bror ght here from their original habi-
tat the inhospitable regions Of Africa,
where, owing to various causes, the
native children Of the soil never
emerged from state Of barbarism, or
ing held in bondage and servitude here
pie have ct in the fifty years since
their emaI ,ipation, in the face Of the
most bit n prejudice and hostility,
shown us lat they, too, have the same
capacity for development as any other
race. A race cannot be spoken Of AZ
inferior Of which the National BuA.
ness league in a recent session could
say! "Starting half a century ago.
without experience, without education
p mhG sa.e.p rSpsfss Ss today sz.s owl
land an area as large as the state Of
South Carolina; we own and control
100 insurance companies, 800 drug.
stores. "a banks, $50 newspapers and
more than 10000 other businesses Of
various kinds, and the total wealth Of
American negroes in land, homes,
schools, churches and other forms of
property, amounts to more than $700s
fper cent of the race was wholly illitera-
Gan both read and write" A race that
has produced distinguished writer's and
orators. whose members are qualified
TO enter, and to serve honorably in,
the learned professions, cannot be
spoken Of as an inferior race. There
are no inferior or superior races. There
may be backward races, oppressed races,
fortunately situated races, races that
have had favorable conditions and OPP
portunities for development, arrogant
faces. domineering races; but no in.
ferior or superior races.
Now Form of Persecution.
The dominant white race wishes the
eolored race to occupy a position of in
feriority and servitude, and to stagnate
IN 1t. That is the gist of the matter. |,
But consider the injustice, the crying
wrong. Of it all. The race did not
come here of it's own accord. It was
brought here in involuntary exile, and
in bondmen s chains. For generations
1t was kept in bondage, and was q chat
tel, an article of trade and barter. At |
length mans better nature rebelled |
against the wickedness Of it all, his !
more humane impulses asserted them
selves. and the colored people were
But new form of OPP |
preston and persecution took the place |
Of the old. The majority of the race |
are disfr chised, and the entire race
Is ostracised. Practically all avenues |
Of honorable employment among white
people are closed to them. Even our |
government, which is supposed % have
one and the same law for all alike, is
now seeking to segregate them, humili-
ate them, and drive them out of its
even in the lowest ranks |
Of officialdom. The entire race is
condemned for the shortcomings, mis-.
deeds and crimes of its worst elements,
as If the lowest elements Of every
other race are not guilty Of equally
heinous misdeeds and crimes.
Cannot a white clerk work alongside
Of colored clerk in a government
offlcef Oh, the hypocrisy of it ALI A
,olored man is good enough to cook the
white mans food, to wait on him at
his table, to serve as his valet; a col
bred woman Is good enough to be his
wife's maid, and his children's nurse.
But they are not good enough to stand
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