Phoenix tribune., 1920-03-13
White WOMAN FLAYS
MEN OF Her RACE FOR
THEIR lNFIDELITY
(By Associated Negro Pressl

Baltimore, Md, March 1O-When it
comes to outstanding, unquestioned
propaganda of justice, young white
woman signs herself miss Critical
Observer" put the following story in
the right place, the Daily Baltimore
American. Says Miss Observer:
American white women for de-
cades have been blindfolded and
dnped as to the colored man. The
colored man has been held up tefore
our eyes as lustful and vicious
creature. AS a consequence, great
masses of us. through lack of in
dividual experience. and because of
ignorance of literature and statistics,
bearing on the truth of the case, have
come to believe the unwarranted and
unfounded charge against the colored
man as class. But the undeniable
rockbottom truth is that Negro men
are no more prone to commit heinous
crimes against women than are other
men. If there be any who doubt the
truth of this statement let them make
comparative study Of the statistics
bearing on lecherous crimes against
women and their doubts will vanish.
The result of the comparison will be
in favor of the colored man. If were
to publish the figures l have on my
desk 1 would startle my readers.
Colored men in other countries such
as Canada, Central America, South
America, West Indies and Africa are
not pictured as the arch assailants of
women. In tact it is said that the
attitude of the native African toward
women is superior in point of decency
to that of men in the most highly
cultured countries. When l am told
that the colored man is so lustfully
inclined, l ask why it is that there are
100000 mulattoes in the United
States and that this number yearly
increases. Whit men trembie before.
this question. They know they are
responsible. Yet many of them are
always telling us women about
NEGRO brutes" and Negro rapists."
In the South, my native home, where
there is the loudest cry about race
separation andy white purity" the
greatest mingling of white men and
colored women takes place. The
South is the garden spot of mulattoes.
1t must not be assumed that white
women will always remain ignorant of
an Indifferent to this fact. Many of
us are wide awake and are thinking
although only a few of US dare to
express ourselves publicly on this
question.
"Of course, am intelligent enough
to know the reason for this denuncia-
tion of the colored man. One of the
objects is to keep the gap as wide
as possible between the white woman
and the colored man. But why is
there little or no effort to widen the
gap between the white man and the
colored woman? Why are our men
not punished for intimate relations
with colored women? No! This would
interfere with white mems social
freedom. Yet they arrogate unto
themselves the role of supreme dicta-
tor as to the race or color of men with
whom we must or must not mingle,
while they will brook no interference
as to the race or color of women with
whom they mingle and become in
innate. -
with all the emphasis at my COM
mand l affirm that the colored man
is not the unworthy creature that
the press, platform, pulpit, and the
movies have pictured him to be. The
veil Of illusion is being gradually re-
moved from white women's eyes,"
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