The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1919.
A PROTEST AGAINST THE CHARGE
OF INFERIORITY.

The white and the black races
have jointly occupied the American
continent approximately the same
length Of time. Therefore, in SO far
as physical environments are con-
cerned the two races, except in ages
preceding the taking up of their
abode upon American soil, have been
similarly affected. However, the
America may have been the period
in which physical conditions had
wrought her greatest atfects upon
the characteristics OF the two races.
Indeed, the great dispority between
the development OF the white and
the black races at the time Of the
beginning Of their career in this
country would indicate that the ply
steal environments OF the white race
had been for more propitious, that
than those OF their Colored brother.
This Is, Of course, assuming the
common origin Of the human family.
Having accepted this assumption,
we must concede that the differences
in the development among the races
OF mankind must be owing to the
influences OF environments and sex
ual selection.
The traditions. customs and laws
OF q people together with the physi-
cal conditions Of the hand In which
they dwell constitute that which we
are pleased to call their environ
ments. These are the most potent
factors that assist or retard in the
development Of mankind.
The great gulf that lay between
the two races at the beginning Of
their existance upon American ter
ritory was no more nor less than
that which divides the barbarian
from an advanced stage OF civiliza-
ton. Despite the act that the OPP
portunities OF the two races have
varied so much as that between that
OF master and slave the great gap
between the development of the two
races has most wonderfully dimin-
ished. In fact the development of
the Negro has been so phenomenal
even under the most adverse con-
in the posterity Of his former slave
a possible rival that may outstrip
his own beloved descendants. II Isl
this plrview Of the future, despite
all arguments to the contrary, that
has given rise to the great race
problems that now confronts the
American people
Since the adjustment OF slavery
there are those who have viewed
with critical eye the rapid develop
ment of the Negro race. That they
have been able to discover plausible
ground for adverse criticism can not
be denied To what extent these so
called delinquencies Of the newly
made Negro citizens are due to
innate race deficiencies and to
what extent 1t is due to the social
pressure to which the race has been
subjected has not been determined.
However. II may be truthfully as
serted that the conditions under
which the Negro has been compelled
to exist and rear his progeny is
more than sufficient 70 account for
any and all his yet discovered de-
linouencies to society. That the Me-
gro would not be able to grasp fully
the significance and the RESPONSE
bIlity that citizenship entails In a
few years, could not have been ex-
Dected even by his most ardent
friends. 1t is upon this grounds
however. that his enemies have en-
camped and attempted to rear a
monument to his .'inferiority." When
we consider the short time the Ne
gro has had for the assimilation Of
the arduous duties of citizenship and
the comparative ignorance under
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