The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-08-21
HAS THE NEGRO BEEN FIGHTING FOR SOCIAL
EQUALITY?

racial fcons appears that some attempts At solutions have
been conscienousy given However, way of thinking the
minds OF these good Samarans couded with ucon
cous preudes and wayd by to such an extent
that the truth been obcured have been tied into
Gordian knots
We do not claim that the minds our interested
friends the pathway right thinking but we can at least Law
bare few facts and queries.
From Friends the editors Southern daes Senator
ed Mccormick Profit Taft Macay Hoyne Chicago Tribune
and from the of the Literary Digest THE PARAMOUNT
EVIL THAT COMMUNICATES THE NEW NEGRO IS HIS
DESIRE FOR SOCIAL EQUALITY" We have made an acct
rate survey OF the claims of the negro We censored his
activities since his return from France even aided the
investigators OF Chicago daes they followed the We
have gathered first hand information Washington D. c. as to
feeling OF its coored people WE FAIL YET TO OBSERVED
WHERE THE NEGRO HAS MADE ANY FIGHT FOR SOCIAL
done in lighting for social equality?
THE NORTH SEEMS be solid in its voc;feraion that ne
sroes will not be denied political equality What political equality
IS not full right of citizenship? What is the full right citizen
shp The constitutional fathers aided Marshall Chief Iu
c have already interpreted even the 18th 18th 18th
amendments have by their construed to give
the right of life liberty pursuit OF happiness to NEGROES pR
oOll OF HAPPINESS HAS BEEN DEFINED BY OUR MOST
EMINENT JURIST AS THE FRIGHT OF PROPERTY ENJOY
MNl Yet they claim the negro fighting equality
when he buys property he was stranger
lH4 CALL THIS AN INVASION Invasion popularity defined
means the act OF invading the conquest something
hurtfu Where the harm lies is the representative vaing
who does the negro given the full rights
OF citizenship
They also said that the negro with the idea of new
freedom The whole world be free The with
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be tree Why censure the negro?
Medhl Mccormick claims because negro Washington
refused to take Oft his hat elevator
ana Jailed to act according Standards South white men
never lit their hats the OF cooed
soul was poisoned by the attempt eporze Taft
says the negro cannot get social equality by fighting The
a S6 assst was fined $50 and costs instead Of
this yoyE r, WIN Utopia WITHIN this
world well Mr. Taft The only instance that advocate mill
fancy claims for social equality in the protection OF
women from WHITE MEN WHO VIOLATE THEIR So
! CALLED ACCEPTED STANDARDS THAT THEY MAKE.
We admit that the Negro is tired of being "half man. We
admit that he tired of the heel of white oppression We admit
that he has been pushed the wall and he stands and
shows his teeth We admit that the Negro desires social
EQUALITY ON THE BASIS OF MERIT. BUT WE CANNOT
BE INTELLECTUALLY HONEST AND TRUTHFULLY AD-
NIT THAT HE HAS MADE ANY FIGHT FOR SOCIAL
EQUALITY. HIS FIGHT HAS BEEN A DEFENSIVE ONE.
THIS SEEMS SURPRISING AND ALARMING TO OUR
WHITE FRIENDS, WHO SEEM TO THINK THAT HE
SHOULD BE PASSINELY SUBMISSIVE
i WE KNOW HOW American soldiers and sailors infested
France with their damnabe prejudice We know that the Negroes
ranked with hate and We also know that
white soldiers marines led the mobs Washington Lest
soldiers.
Did you that white friends really fear that
Negro breaking shell and beginning bas the sunlight
OF real manhood?
IS IT THE DESIRE OF THE WHITE AMERICAN TO
KEEP THE NEGRO INFERIOR AND SUBTERFUGE HIS
EVERY ACT ON THE GROUND OF SOCIAL EQUALITY?
THE COOK COUNTY BOARD AND BoLsHEvIsM.