Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-07-21
SEATTLE WASHINGTON, SATURDAY JULY 21 1917

In still another column is reproduced an
editorial from the Portland Advocate, which
is published by black man, and giving his
objections to the idea. Both of these men
have spoken well and said many things that
are worthy of much consideration. While
the Advocate stated facts, yet it did not an
swer the writer's argument However
humane, just and right it may be to deport
the black folk from this country the
scheme is absolutely impossible for it would
bankrupt the government to reimburse the
colored for the property and valuables they
own in this country and to at the same
time send twelve million to a foreign
country, and aside from the monetary con-
sideration, it would require the presence Of
two million white soldiers to enforce the
work, even though the money was forth
coming. The Advocate is correct in it's
allegation that the black folk are here to
stay and that there will never be any de-
portation scheme attempted, but as un-
adulterated colored folk we take issue with
the Advocate, and make the prediction that
they are going and going very fast. Mr..
Seaberg asks: lis this nation to be half
white and half black or is it to be mu-
latto?' In the United States there are up
wards of five million part white and black
folks and the mixture is rapidly on the in
crease. To be more definite the 'colored
people, in the United States are almost
equally divided between black and tans
and blacks. At the close of the war there
were about 100000 mixed bloods against
three million blacks, about thirty per cent,
but in the course Of fifty years the per cent
Of mixed bloods had increased to fully fifty.
A long story short, the black folk are to
stay as part black and part white, and
there is no doubt but that the future people
OF this country will be a complete mixture
OF all the races and classes now living here,
and, 1t you please, race like unto the
Latlns OF Europe America is doomed to
be one-race nation which will be made
up OF the bloods of all nations For either
the black man or the white man to worry
over such dreams as presented by Mr.. Sea-
berg is wasted energy for whatever is to
be will be. The black folks are here and
apparently here to say, but after many
changes and alterations, and the same will
be true of~the white folks Because the
white folks are temporarily in the majority
Is no excuse for them using the brute and
savage force to vent their feelings of 3D.
position to the black folks, for not picking
up voluntarily and leaving here, which
thing should no more be expected of the
blacks than OF the whites AS the editor
OF this paper has repeatedly said in these
columns as well as from the rostrum, it's
absolutely out of the question to build up
a white and black race in the same ter
rltory, the one or the other must fall. and
It's always the weaker that goes to the
wall The black folks of the United
States, in the opinion Of the writer, will
either be absorbed by the whites or killed
by them, for they (the blacks) will not
stand for deportation The ABSORPTION pro-
cess is already far under headway and the
killing process is only making haste very
slowly.