The Colorado statesman., 1917-07-28
DENVER, COLORADO. SATURDAY, JULY 2s 1917

grandfather is of Anglo-Saxon
origin, we sometimes in our embar-
RAISING moments find little mirth
in the inability to determine "who
is who" and what is what" by
the mighty dominant white race
and their "spotting agents. In
Denver we have a few "high
browns" and attractive yellows, T"
who have been holding their own
for years, some living in palatial
residences, some legally united,
property owners in what they
term exclusive sections, on resident
lots for whites only and it is
so amusing to see them enter the
theaters and other places of amuse-
ment seated in the parquet and
boxes without molestation because
of the admixture brought about by
this race that has and is changing
color. That "a great astonish-
ment'' is gradually covering them
is generally noticed as we know
personally in one of the oldest and
largest insurance companies of this
country there are two of our
NEGRO-WHITES that have been
filling very lucrative and proml-
nent positions for over a decade,
and having the features and every
thing that would count for the APP
parent proofs of racial identity
(white) they remain undisturbed.
The mother of one is of direct Afri-
can descent, having jet black
straight hair, with soft black
skin. his father being a German,
the other, his mother a mulatto and
his father white American. We
can recall an incident which helps
to prove the 'great astonishment, y
the same being as follows In the
long drawn out controversy for
years in the Episcopal church in
America for the ordainlng OF
Negro bishops (the same having no
settlement up to the present) an
Episcopal colored clergyman of
Denver was asked to write paper
on the same question to be pre-
sented at a periodical conference of
the body in Colorado He wrote
and read the paper which was free
ly discussed. as he gave every proof
of the possession of the qualities
bv the Negro for the high office.
After "a number of clergymen had
expressed themselves, one vener-
able divine of an experience of half
a century in the ministry spoke
very touchingly and closed the de-
bate by saying, "Well, the Negroes
should not have too much worry
over this question, as in my opinion
drawing deductions from general
surroundings. within few years
there will be no darkskinned peo-
pie in America. as the white race
is losing its color by intermiXing.
We can remember an article from
the pen of one of our eminent race
writers. DIR. Williams. who headed
his matter. "Give Us Back Our
White Negroes, and he went on
to show how that the white man
was beginning to realize his merci-
less action towards the Negro in
the qualification of his sensuous de
sires, by the fairness of his off
spring, and then he resorted to the
cruel role-adding insult to injury,
by trying to divide and sub-divide
the Negroes themselves into a va
riety of types and classes.
Certainly they have claimed su-
periority, and if their code of
moral ethics taught them 'to SOW
the wind then by all means let
them "reap the whirl wind. " We
are proud that we are Negroes
real Negroes. pure Negroes, who
from the ore to the refined metal
retain all the qualities whereby we
can be seen or known. and as soon