The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-24
/ HAMPTON AND TuskEoEE.

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The Following Article l. Taksn From
The Cleveland Gazette, ana Is Only
One Of Many Such That Have Ap-
peared From the Trenchent Pen Of
Rev. William A. Byrd Read and
Ponder. 3.
That Hampton and Yuskegee have
done much good for the colored race
and the country at large, no sane man
will deny, but there is serious ques-
ton as to the harm they have also
done. Hampton in Virginia empha-
sizes humility for colored men. Tus-
kegee in Alabama emphasizes non
resistance and deep respect for
southern traditions Such men as
Seth Low and many others have built
and do maintain Tuskegee because
they hope through it to uplift the
colored race and in a measure solve
the race problem. The trouble with
this policy is its one-side dness. These
men constantly advise the color,eil
race to be patient while the white
men continually heap upon them
more and grievous burdens. Coioradi
men n are continually reminded that
tne southern white man is his chest
friend" and this white FRIEND is
continually showing his friendship by
oppression, violence and death. Be-
sides these evils both Hampton and
Tuskegee stand for the kind of edu-
cation the south is half way inclined
to tolerate industrial training.
teaching the niger how to be q
good servant" From Tuskegee SEN
t1ment of this kind goes out over the
country. The head of Tuskegee must
stand for this sentiment or fight like
a man and quit; or acquiesce like "a
good nigger."'' and be allowed to re-.
main No one can sit and hear a
lecture from Hampton's teachers with.
out being impressed with the fact that
all OF the effort of that institution is
to make the colored people patiently
receive whatever the whites or the
south may give them. They are fos-
terlng a sentiment of inferiority of
the black man to the white man, ure-
ing the colored youth to accept this
as fact and prepare to make useful
his life under such conditions. THIS
is WRONG! Within Hampton itself.
this inferiority of the colored to the
white is emphasized. We are reliably
informed that even little advance
agent, white of course, secured for
MAJOR Motion, after he was chosen
mead OF Tuskegee, a very humble stop.
ping place in Syracuse, N. Y, but he
himself stopped at the "Onandaga,' .
the most expensive and exclusive
hotel in that city. When protest
was made against such, he said that
ne regretted it, but did not want it
published. He should have been more
OF man than to have done such a
thing where discrimination is unlaw.
ful. For Major Motion to stop in the
same hotel with him would be too
much like equality of the president
OF Tuskegee N. & 1. Institute with
an agent of Hampton, who CHANGED
to have white skim Mind you. an
agent begging the public for a chance
to present his black school progeny
Major Motion was very wise when he
told his New York audience a few
days ago that he did not aspire to be
the leader of the colored people in
this country. No southern man who
must live and make his living there
can be this leader! Major Motion must
suppress his own resentment at in.
justice in order to do what good he
can for his race. Heads of southern
schools cannot be the leaders in civic
and national matters pertaining to
colored people. In church and state
schools these teachers must accent
the southern policy. The colored race
IS unalterably opposed to accepting
anything as it's portion which any
other self-respecting race would moi
accept. The danger of Hampton and
Tuskegee is their building up a man.
hood of weaklings and non-resistants
ihey are making colored youths be-
ileve that they are right when they
numbly take southern sand and saw
they have sugar. These institutions
should remain and be encouraged
BUT THEIR POLICY SHOULD BF
CHANGED. The colored youth should
De taught to shun bullyism, but love
to embrace those principles of corr.
ageous manhood which resent wrone
when Wilfully and maliciously given
Inc weight of these institutions will
be sought to stem the tide of emiera.
ton from the south. We hope thew
viii speak out and utter the truth.
The colored people of the south have
nothing to fear by leaving there
They may die by reason of the cold
in this section (and this it not at ali
propaDle) but that lis more mercifu]
than dying by the rope and at the
mouth Of the shotgun. Here in the
north their children can receive the
education any child receives, and their
ambition will not be curtailed nv
making them believe and recognize
tne< fallacy that they are inferior ia
some one else. If the south desires
the black people to remain there LET
them lift the embargo on education
voting, protection of life and pron.
erty and discontinue "jim-crowism ),
segregation and general cussedness
Black people are insulted when thew
are asked to accept such as their
portion. The trustees of Hamntnn
ana Iuskegee should recognize the
TACT that their work must fail If thew
continue to try to build up race
that is too weak and cowardly to
demand it's rights. These white trus.
tees should demand for their wards
a greater degree of freedom 81
thought and action than they now
nave. The pandering to the wishes
OF the south is not making it better
for the colored race but it is firmly
esta Dlishing policy which the whole
race Will be asked to accept. Now,
the colored people not in the south