The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-08

4Adt 11dMpIOu anu IuSKegeo nave
done much good for the colored race
and the country at large, no sane man
Will deny, but here is serious cues.
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
tne race problem. The trouble with
tnls policy is it's one-sidedness. These
men constantly advise the colored
race to be patient while the white
men continually heap upon them
more and grievous burdens. Colored
men are continually reminded that
the southern white man is his "best
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 a
good servant" From Tuskegee a sen.
timent 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 niger" 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.
tering a sentiment of inferiority of
the black man to the white man, urg.
ing the colored youth. to accept this
as a fact and prepare to make useful
his life under such conditions. THIS
is. WRONG! Within Hampton itself
this inferfority 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
head OF Tuskegee, very humble stop.
ping place in Syracuse, N. Y, but he
himself stopped at the "Onandaga, u
the most expensive and exclusive
hotel in that city. When a protest
was made against such, he said that
he regretted it, but did not want it
published He should have been more
OF man than to have done such q
thing where discrimination is unlaw.
full. For Major Motion to stop in the
same hotel with him would be too
much like equality, of the president
of Tuskegee N. & I. Institute with
an agent of Hampton, who CHANGED
to have a white skim" Mind you, an
agent begging the public for 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 accept
the southern policy. The colored race
Is unalterably opposed to accepting
anything as it's portion which any
otner selt-respecting race would not
accept. The danger of Hampton and
Iuskegee is their building up a man
hood of weaklings and non-resistants
Ihey are making colored youths be
ileVe that they are right when thew
humbly take southern sand and say
they have sugar. These institutions
should remain and be encouraged
BUT THEIR POLICY SHOULD BIZ
CHANGED. The colored youth should
be taught to shun bullyism, but love
to embrace those principles Of cour
ageous manhood which resent WRONG
when wilfully and maliciously given
Inc weight of these institutions will
he sought to stem the tide of emigra.
ton from the south. We hope thew
will 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
probable) but that is more mercifu]
than dying by the rope and at the
mouth of the shotgun. Here in the
n0rth their children can receive the
education any child receives. and thei1
ambition will not be curtailed nv
making them believe and recognize
the fallacy that they are inferior n
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 prop
erty, and discontinue "jim-crowism. >
segregation and general cussedness
Black people are insulted when thew
are asked to accept such as thei,
portion. The trustees of Hamilton
and Tuskegee should recognize the
1act that their work must fail if thew
continue to try to build up a race
That is too weak and cowardlv II
demand its rights. These white trus.
tees should demand for their wards
a greater degree of freedom OF
thought and action than they now
nave. The pandering to the wishes
OF the south is not making it better
Tor the colored race but it is firmly
establishing policy which the whole
race will be asked to accept. Now
tne colored people not in the south
ern states will NEVER accept the
policy of the South. Colored men
working there have the sympathy OF
those of us who are not there. but
we will not stand for any loud.
mouthed proclaiming that the colored
race should accept the spolicy as
taught by Hampton and Tuskegee
Major Motion is wise in doing the
best he can under the most unfayor.
able conditions so far as real man.
hood is concerned, but he is unwiIl.
ing to advocate what he has to accent
as the policy of his race. We take
on our hat to him in this. The time
IS ripe for such institutions as At.
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