The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-11-01
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ment: over 20,0 900 acres of land,
territory euqal TO the combined areas
of Rhode Island, New Hampshire and
Massachusetts,. We have over $4,000
professional men and women, made
up of lawyers, doctors, teachers and
preachers. The Negro is religious.
The value of church property owned
by him today is over SIS, 900, 900, con-
sisting of over $4,000 churches, 175
schools connected with churches. All
this was acquired by sacrifice. The
Negro is God.fearing 1t matters not
how poor his surroundings, he is
never forgetful of that Supreme
Power which guides the destiny of in
dividuals as we'll as nations.
ID Politically the Negro was betrayed
in the house of his friends. From the
times that Hayes took away the pro
lection that hedged the way to the
ballot box up to today he has been
the innocent victim of wrong, Oppres-
sion and injustice. Loyal to the par
ty of Lincoln, he has incurred the
wrath of those in the South who defy
the Constitution. violate the laws and
who have gone to the very depths of
hell to find epithet strong enough to
hurl against him and crimes black
enough to destroy him. But with it
all he has been patient and has eXer-
cised f~orbearanCe. He realized that
revolutions never go backward. that
the darkest hour this nation ever had
or ever will have preceded the Civil
War; that the strong men and WON.
en- of the land responded and Danish
ed slavery from our land forever.
THE Negro has been %expectant that
something would happen to quick
en- the conscience of the people who
believe in the maintenance of our ma
tional ideals, although discouraged
at the silence of the Church and 9th
er great leaders, on the lynching of
Negroes, and the notification of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments to the Constitution. When the
world wal came the Negro responded
to the call of his country. Although
finding it hard to enlist, he patriot
cally responded to the draft. No Ne
gro was a conscientious objector. The
cries of the ravished woman and or
phaned children of France penetrated
the gloom of his cabin in the South
land and he responded over 100000
strong. just a few thousand less than
the white quota. He worked valiant
" doing the hard labor of the war,
and fought with heroism when given
the opportunity. He suffered priva.
tions and was the only one of all the
race groups in America whose loyalty
was penalized by being subjected to
Jim Crow methods. segregation and
humiliation. In spite of all these, no
Negro yer acted as a spy or commit
ted an act of treason. He resisted
the efforts of the Hun propaganda
responded with his money to help fl
nance the war, and made a greater
sacrifice than any other rae group
because for his handicaps.
He has now returned and man!
will never return, because they have
Maid the supreme sacrifice. Since
they fought like men abroad the!
know that they are entitled to
mans chance at home. They fee
that if they were an asset in wal
they cant he a liability in time o
peace. Colored people are not re
sentful against the whites. The feel
ings of Colored people are s%ectiona
rather than racial, notwithstanding
the statement of Prof. Motion. of Tus
kegee. who misrepresents condition.
and who is in no position to max,
such statements, when he puts tn
Negro in the North on the defensive
while as a matter of fact Prof. Nc
ton knows that he speaks for cond
lions in the South, where the Negr
is subjected to so much wrong an
injustice. The relations of the tw
races in the North are apparent
Colored people have their constitJ
tional rights, right of trial by jury
protection of the law, administrator.
Of the law by honest, fair and feal
less judges, a comparatively liberia
and friendly press with few eXcel
tions, a fair opportunity in the indus
l trial fields which is getting bette
: every day. He is gradually being az
mitted in the labor union on eQui
terms. He is getting a fair wage an
is saving money, buying propert,
educating his children. Consequent
the Negro who has the future of hi
race at heart is not advocating vi,
. lence; the Negro is not an aharchis
a Bolsheviki or an I. w. w. The rae
: riots so far have been started by tn
/ whites and colored men have simpl
a defended themselves, which is a CO.
given right
: we are called the inferior rae
and yet we are urged to be patier
and to forbear, which are the virtue
of a superior race. If the Negro
=. left alone, treated justly, given h
. full constitutional right, given an o
f, portunity to earn an honest day
: pay, there eed be no occasion II
, race riots or racial aniosities. "
Z should remember that the sacrific,
= our men made abroad makes the
; keenly sensitive to wrong at HON
" and that, having faced death
: France, they are willing to do Il
= same thing at home rather than 81
render a single right vouchsafed
: them by law and the Constitution.
"The Colored people are 100 p
, cent American in their hopes, asp
ations and Ideals. Go to a Color,
u neighborhood; you will hear Anne
can spoken, see American customs al
" hear American music. We stay he