The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-06-29

boldly and with art. Browns" aside
from a few songs, chiefly Blues" we
are making little progress toward do.
ing this manifestation of beauty in our
Race Justice in painting and poetry.
Some day a great painter with an eye
for originality and an appreciation for
real native color will succeed in i'm.
mortalizing "A Study in Brown"
Gold.
Gold yellow is pleasant to look
upon. There is no color strikes the
emotions with the same degree OF
pleasure and appreciation as Gold
does. Gold is yellow, yellow is golden.
But according to our white students
there must be two kinds of yellow.
For instance, previous to the Johnson.
J%effries fight at Reno on that me.
morable Fourth of July, they specu.
lated on the probable yellow streak"
that Johnson would discover upon fac.
ing Jeffries the mighty descendent of
Cliff Dwellers," and so on.
The final event, however, proved
that this yellow" was on the oppo.
site side from our Black hero. John.
o evidently has yellow in his
heart but this was of the hundred per
cent variety.
Then II &c thot To no oil ,.n1
low, all gold, is a good thing. Vel.
low in truth is Gold. The best age is
the Golden age. The sun is golden in
its wonted glory. The Chinese are a
yellow people, golden faced, and are
aptly termed celestials. The yellow
gold taken from the earth sets the
money standard of the world. Strange!
Yellow becomes sc cheap and inferior
when manifested in American Ne.
groes. l do not think so. AS | love
yellow ear of corn, yellow in the
sun and moon, yellow in the golden
candle stick, so do | love yellow as t
enhances the charm in our women
(bold think to say, was it not?). This
much, I'm not going to allow the
other fellow to love and admire vel.
low in everything until he gets to my
race then affect to despise it or call
it something inferior.
| refute the assertion that yellow
stands for inferior and, and instead, |
claim that yellow stands for Gold, and
gold is a high standard. Note:-It
hos Ocnurrad IN mo tbot u-ritipg with
a certain warmth the reader might
misconstrue the spirit in which this
article is composed and they may De
inclined to Undue me with a certain
favoritism on account of my own
color, for this reason I state that |
am not yellow" by a long margin.
Although my mother was a near white
woman, my father was practically a
Black man, and | am hence very much
Brown. So you see there is no spe.
cies of vanity that would naturally ap-
peal to me Ceven if l was given SUCH
unless l might express myself in an
old song. popular among us. namely:
I'm So Glad I'm Brown Skin"
Color Should Not Supersede Character
Now we see the Importance of get
ting things right. We have been cam
ouuflaged by the false psychologists
for a couple of centuries and we are
still being bumfuZzled to an extent.
But let us set our standards OF
beauty. We have the material, let us
acquire the Art. Let us valuate our
own TO the highest. Let us assume
that we are the people, but let us be
careful that while we are fighting the
standard of White as antagonistic to
Black, Brown and Gold. we do not let
the various shades among us super.
sede character. For if shades offer
an outward distinction it is always
character that qualities in Art and
Truth. The intelligence in thy face,
o Man, is thy Beauty.
l believe, as a people, that we have
the finest spirit in the world to har.
monte and blend the various hues of
our Race with freedom.
In conclusion. we claim that the
right Psychology for us is embraced
in this thought: We are a dark Race
of people, as good looking as any
other, with Il share of the so-called
physical graces, and we differ more
or less among ourselves only in vari,
Gus shades named in this treatise.
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