The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-10-04
LIVING ON THE BOULEVARDS

LxVLvG Wv LIE DOOAA AMY
section. of Grand Michigan bouevard WE HAVE SEEN
BY OUR CONTEMPORARY, 1.-THE DEFENDER" THAT
THESE INDIVIDUALS OR SOME OF THEM ARE TO BE
COMPARED TO A "BULL IN A CHINA CLOSET" Inc De-
fender states for dense IN this
enlightened age; THAT THOUSANDS HAVE MIGRATED
FROM THE SOUTH WHOSE HABITS WERE LITTLE BET.
TER THAN HOTTENTOTS That the offensive methods OF
the Newcomer will not be tolerated in the North"
The Defender further Negroes sraining
themselves 10 live o the boulevards
WE ARE RECREFUL that colleague in the newspaper
world absolutely devoid of judgment and diplomacy
"After something in the eternal fitness OF things
If the obtains that The Defender claims and we
it does not, NO COLORED NEWSPAPER THAT HAS The
INTRINSIC INTEREST OF THE RACE AT HEART SHOULD
EDITORIALIZE ON THIS SUBJECT AT THIS PRESENl
TIME.
NEGROES IN CHICAGO HAVE THE HOUSING PROB
LEM The whole has been placarded as undesrabe
The white Park and kenwood have used
every method segregate them The whole is thrown
under crunzng surveillance by the white man.
THE DEFENDER is PREACHING THE SAME 1NSlDlOUS
PROPAGANDA THAT VARDAMAN, BLEASE AND BlLBO
BREACHES THE NEGRO IS IGNORANT AND UNFIT.
IT DECIDED VIRTUE TO HIDE OUR WEAKNESSES
AND FALLIBILITIES FROM OUR ENEMIES THE WORLD
GREATEST WEEKLY" HAS TOO LARGE WHITE FOL
LOWING TO SHOW UP THE RACE AS THEY ARE DOING.
THE PROPER THING TO HAVE DONE WAS TO HAVE
WRITTEN LETTERS TO THE OFFENDERS OR APPOINT A
COMMITTEE TO VISIT THEM AND REASON With HE
"SO-CALLED HOTTENTOTS"
We can not imagine what the motive of the Chicago De-
fender was. 1T CAN NOT BE THAT THEY HAVE EN-
TANGLINC" ALLIANCES WITH THE SOUTHERN PROPA-
CANDISTS. 1T CAN NOT BE THAT THEY HAVE JOINED
HANDS WITH THE SEGREGATING AGENCIES. IT CAN
NOT BE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN BOUGHT OUT 1T
MUST BE DUE TO THE LACK OF INTELLIGENCE THE
LACK OF INTROSPECTION THE INABILITY TO WEIGH
INTERESTS AND BALANCE CONVENlENCES.
There is not an mbecie Dunning who would dare
that galore for Negroes
The white so cent the blame tor It,
too Five dollars capita spent
the white children and only 81 for the coored in
practically all of the rural districts The average coored
equivalent of first rate 9TH grade student
there plenty of well educated coored
teachers the white will not pay
nor stand utaage for nggers the crop lien
system nothing short of highway robbery and the
mssary which compels the Negro
commodities keeps him SO tar in debt that
unable send his children first class boarding schools
the have kept the Negro out of profit
able employment Public officials have tolerated all kinds Of
among Negroes for the sake of vote They
HAVE MADE COLORED NEIGHBOREOODS A DUMPING
GROUND FOR THE MORAL DEGENERATES OF THE
WHITE RACE By refusing employ well trained Negroes In
capacities compatible with their education they have dscour
aged 1t thing to a college graduate
shining waiting table, 1t is thing to hear
uneducaed coloed youth whats the use OF getting
of these facts SHOULD NOT PUZZLE THE DEFENDER TO
FIND EXCUSES FOR IGNORANCE AMONG COLORED
PEOPLE, but when they that in spite of these
red forging their letters of into swords of
amazingly puzzlng to ferret out the excuses
the growing ntellience of the
The the Negroes from the South intelligent
them decent and honest None OF them have
cent of the business among us owned
by Souherner The churches kept up by
We learn from them than they have
from us. 1T is A BASIC DISTORTION OF TRUTH THAT
NEGROES ARE STREAMING THEMSELVES TO LIVE ON
THE BOULEVARDS. THERE ARE FIFTY-SIX FAMILIES ON
MICHIGAN AVENUE AND GRAND BOULEVARD. FORTY
NINE OWN THEIR OWN BUSINESS AND AUTOMOBILES
THE DEFENDER HAS DONE MORE TO CAUSE NEGROES