The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-19
NO SUCH THING AS
SOCIAL EQUALITY

In an article appearing in the Echo
of last week it was said that mum
her of negroes from the South were
hired TO Chicago and other northern
and western towns by promises OF
"social equality"
If our colored friends could be
made to see the patent fact that there
is no such thing as social equality
that it is but mirage that was used
TO lead them astray to those northern
and western cities and that their bind
following of the desire for 1T Will
never get them anywhere but into
trouble they would be more content
and happier and save their white
friends a lot of needness apprehen-
sion and modification.
There is no social equality even
between the members of any one race.
There are a lot of people OF our
race who would not think OF enter
tanning us in their homes or associat-
ing with US upon plane OF social
equality.
There are lot of white people who
we would not take to our home or
or who we do not associate with as
our social equals.
This is so even in the colored race,
though the lines are less sharply
drawn there than in the white race.
There are negroes who disdain ac-
cepting other negroes as their equals
in the social scale.
There are plenty of negroes who ac-
cept this in their own race and do not
deign to enter the social ranks of
those of their own race who are higher
in social standing.
Then there is no social equality be-
tween the races as whole. The good
Lord, for His own good reasons, Gre
ated five separate and distinct races
to populate the world. He graded
them in scale. Way back in sacred
history, when the purpose and dicta-
ties of the Ruler of the Universe were
more closely adhered to, we find that
there was a line of demarkation al
ways between the standing of these
races. We find that the white race,
and evidently by divine sanction,
stood at the top Of this scale. Holy
writ says distinctly that the sons of
Ham should ever be ''hewers of wood
and drawers OF water" for the other
races. The world accepts the facts
of these "sons of Ham being the
negro race.
All through holy writ we find that
Ethiopians were servants and menials
for the higher race; never that they
were looked upon as the equal of the
higher race in a social way. That the
other race come between these two
races in the social scale is evident
Yet no two of the other races meet
upon a social plane, even in those
western and northern cities where so
much is said about the Negroes being
accepted as social equals by the peo-
pie of the South it will be found that
Chinese especially, as we'll as members
of the other races, are not by any
means admitted to social equality by
the white people. Taking holy writ
as authority the Monaghan race, to
which belong the Chinese, is a race
higher in the characteristics that de-
termine social equality between the
Negro and white races when there is
not, nor can there be, any between
races that the Bible itself rates more
nearly as equals.
Thus we come to the conclusion
that there are classes as to nations
and that there are classes within ma
tons as a whole; that these classes
nationally and internationally, are re-
cognized and respected; that each
class has its standing socially as well
as otherwise; that there is line be-
tween them that it is contrary to the
plans of Providence or of good rea.
son to try to overstep.
Character and characteristics go to
make up these classes. Races have
these distinct from other races, indi
viduals in races have them distinct
from other members of their owr
race. Whenever an individual over
comes such of those characteristics
as grade him lower in the social seal.
he then becomes fit for higher anc
will be so accepted. But he only
gets one class higher and not upon &
social equality with his entire race Of
with watever race he may be thrown
If the Negro race is ambitious te
climb niger in the social scale it mus.