The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-09-27
THE BLACK MANS BARRIER

THE BLACK MANS BARRIER
THE PATH of the Black padded with In
stead it is besrewn thorn thes and quick sands The
obstacles that up alpine barriers muttudnou The
Black stumbled tottered and has fallen to
his knees but anon odded and he is still roddng
up to the heights deectable HIS CROSS HE BEARS WITH
PHILOSOPHICAL OPTIMISM, REALIZING NO CROSS NO
CROWN.
OVER AND ABOVE this philosophical optimism there has
been created systematic by the American Black
to lay every weight and the strong man
should progressive advancing Negro stripping himself
superstition religious fanacm color conscious
and unwarranted credu The American
also beginning scientific eradication of the bar
riers pathway Hannibal the first to the
Alps others aerward Napoleon the
Great tunneled through the Alps thence the classic patude
Crossed the Alps, but Napoleon Overturned Them
THERE HAVE BEEN GREAT GROUPS IN OUR RACE WHO
HAVE BY SHEER NERVE AND INDOMITABLE WILL
POWER CROSSED THE BARRIERS BUT BEHIND THEM
THERE STILL LAOS THE APATHETIC AND WEAK MEM
BEERS THAT STILL STRUGGLE AND FALL. 1T THEREF ORE
BEHOOVES US TO EITHER TUNNEL THE BARRIERS OR 10
CUT THEM OUT OF OUR WAY.
This paper advocates permanent elimination and eradics
ton evils and deterrent forces Expedency and innate
limitations will permit to attack all evils at once we
WILL however, begin militant campaign these restraining
forces and stumbling blocks. THERE MUST BE A CRUSADE
ON OFFENDING EVILS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND
IN cONSONANCE WITH THEIR GRAVITY AND WEIGHT.
The barrier in the pathway of the American
Black man school of Negro The haf-coced
individual the who disparges their
every constructive efforts who reaches his on
affairs through emotion and impulse rather than logical
reasoning and intelligent appraisal of comparative human
values.
THESE OLD FoGGYs HAVE Slapped THE VITALITY
OF INTELLIGENT ORGANIZATION. They have put in
the wheels racial stability They have used the herabe
tendency and trait of the slave to snoop and seze the
IDEAS and methods of the Negroes and slip
around white that such and such an ind
vidual is scrutinzed These odfashioned recacran
and d the efforts of the men pei
lowed such criticisms and cyncms that THEY HAVE MADE
RACIAL COHESION A JOKE AND INTELLIGENT COOPER
ALTON A FARCE.
of &c that these chemin
and plotting merchants Venice have taken asset that
The Young men produced capitalized without giving them
equitable consideration. THEY HAVE TEMPTED YOUNG
MEN WITH POLLUTED FINANCIAL BAIT AND SIEEKtD
THEM FROM DOING CONSTRUCTIVE WORK AND REAL
SERVICE These school individuals who have inorma
ton on work. these Uncle Toms who reason by old
old sayings refuse to paronze young
professional who distru everybody and even stea
proving the whole in the unsantary en-
vironment in which they reve and bask
THE FOSSLZED TYPES that must be cut off are those
who believe Negro Negroes place Who
that the Negro inherently inferior Who believe
that Negroes into FOOLS Who believe every
thing the white prints Who believe that the whe
mans the verdict reached by highest tribunal
under the SUM- Who believe in the old order of things
They do not believe that the Negro worthy of his hire
thew do the survival of the fit but in the survival
of the slick They in getting and have no re-
GARD for methods THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN ANY CORPO
RATE BUSINESS, UNLESS THEY HAVE THE CONTROLLING
STOCK They do believe in public meetings unless their
snoble the platforms They believe ex
olng their from the house tops They believe IN
getting all graft they in all the they They
believe in putting young Negro down and keeping him
down. The late Booker T. Washington, strangely out of
mediocre mind gave birth good anecdoe; that of the
crabs in that pulled back ventuou brother
who tried to climb He ALSO related the story of the frog
in the butermik who kept kicking until the milk was
buned into Mister Frog walked the golden
berv substance These old fossils and foggies must be
ned out of existence The time ripe THE NEW NEGRO
WILL DO THE KICKING, BUT THE WHOLE RACE WILL
REAP THE FRUITIoN Away these backward individuals
becmate the of Race EFF thy right offend