The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-11-29
BRITISH VIEW OF OUR GROUP.
Associated Negro Press.

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the relation between whites and blacks
in the United States. His article
reads:
Another race riot, this time in Oma.
ha, accentuates the fact that the Unit.
ed States is still far from finding a
solution of what is when all is said
and done the most difficult, though
not Immediately the most important,
of her social problems. A good deal
has been said in previous articles OF
the movement for the proper Ameri-
%caniaZtion of citizens of alien blood.
Things like the steel strike, which
would not have come about had it not
been for the inflammability of the for
eign laborers in the mills, show that
the movement is a much needed me.
For the Negro question there is no
such ultimate cure as yet visible. The
descendants of the slaves of Colonial
days and of the first era of %independ.
ence, are already as much Americana
ed as they can be. One of the lessons
of the present situation is that the
farther upwards they move in the so
cial scheme. the greater their discon-
tent and the greater the prejudice
against them of the whites with whom
they compete.
1t is the custom Of the Negro to live
in we'll defined quarters of the cities.
Even in Washington, one finds whole
streets given up to Colored people,
tucked way in the midst of the best
residential quarter. AS the Negro
crowds North the old Colored distsrict
becomes unable to hold him; he Stops
out in adioinig streets. His presence
in them is resented, and there is bad
blood. This bad blood is often aggra.
waited by the white workman's jeal.
ousy of his new competitor. A crime
against a white woman, or something
of that sort, and the fat is in the fire.
The war has also hardened the feel
ing of the Negro against the white.
He was sent in large numbers to
France. He found in France no par.
ticular color line drawn against him.
He was received as an ally and not as
an inferior. 1t inks him to return to
the inequalities of the home he went
to fight for, to the Jim Grow" laws of
the Southern States that provide for
him separate railway carriages and to
the various schemes, like the Grand.
father Clause" whereby some states
confine the suffrage to those whose
grandparents were free, in order to de-
prive him of the vote that was consti.
tutionally given him after the Civil
War. 1t inks him the more inasmuch
as he is told by his organs in the
Press that the American High Com
mand tried to get the French to treat
him as he was treated at home. Proud
of his newfound sense of discipline,
he is not deaf to propaganda against
allowing himself to be exploited by
the white race in times Of crisis and
then, when the crisis is over. to be
put back into a position of recognized
inferiority.
For many years past there have
been two theories about the education
Of the American Negro. One idea has
been to concentrate upon technical
education, to bring him up to manual
trades, and to encourage him to be-
come u small farmer. The other idea
has been to treat him as a white man,
to give him a higher education, The
latter policy has had considerable sue
cess. There have been Negroes high
in the Federal service. There are good
Colored doctors and lawyers; and
there are many thousands of Negroes,
probably, rich enough to own their
own motors and that sort of thing. In
New York, for instance, there is a
most prosperous Colored community,
living together in good streets and
good houses, with its own theatres
and all the other trappings of civiliza.
ton.
But there is a reverse side to the
shield. The intellectual Negro seems
to take rather kindly to Socialism and
organized agitation. Thus, one finds,
besides the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored people,
which has many white members, a
number of purely colored organizations
like the League of Democracy, an or,
ganization of colored soldiers aflame
with grievances against the white off
GERS they had in France, the Univer,
sal Negro Improvement Association,
whose program is to awaken class con
seriousness among the Negroes here
and in Africa, and to knit together ali
the Colored races of the world, the
National Association for the Organiza.
ton of Labor Union among Negroes,
the Hamitic League of the World. the
League of the Darker People of the
World, and so on.
Nearly all such associations are ex.
treme and run by young colored So
cialists, often aided and abetted by
professional white extremists OF the
type that causes so much trouble
among the alien proletariat. Some of
them publish inflammatory organs
like the Messenger Of New York the
Crisis of the same city or the Boston
Guardian, whose editor, W. NJ. Trotter,
a Harvard graduate, after a fruitless
visit to the peace conference, lately
told the senate committee on foreign
relations TO look out for a race rising
il the whites did not mend their ways
Even the Industrial Workers of the
World have been getting recruits