Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-04-03

refined colored lady eating in the same
restaurant with her.
What s the trouble? The trouble is that
all Of the American citizens of certain
section of the country and a majority of
the American citizens in other sections de-
liberately refuse to recognize colored man
for his attainment and achievements in
the scientific, literary, musical and artistic
world for his worth as man, for his in
dustrial efficiency or professional skill, but
seek to determine not only his social but
his civil, political, industrial and economic
status by the color of his skin.
With all of the camoufage paint, pow
der, rouge, false hair and false teeth with
which our friend is disguised, we simply
recognize caste prejudice based upon color,
seeking to rehabilitate itself in a world
which claims to be striving for democracy.
'White people want Negroes to have JUS
tice they want them to have artistic
homes, modern schools, good libraries, beau
tiful parks, but they want the Negro to
get off to himself and provide these things"
This is the minor premise, and white people
want the Negro to have as good things as
they have, but they want him to have them
by himself.
The psychology is defective here. If the
Negro is segregated because he is regarded
as inferior to the white man, one would
naturally expect that he would be given
inferior accommodation. And that is what
we actually find in the South and other
sections Of the country We find the Ne
groes Of the South showed off to unsanitary
sections OF the town to live: given inferior
waiting rooms, inferior cars on which to
info c,ohn
lum in the State colleges for Negroes. Fire.
quently the Jim Crow car is attached next
to the engine, one-half Of it being used
as a baggage or smoking car for white
men. Frequently it is an old, delapidated,
broken-down car on which the dust on the
seats is so thick that one could clearly
write his name with his finger tips Why
Just inferior accommodations for inferior
peoples.
Then, toward the close, Madame Mere
dith says Of the colored people: "They
have able leaders, like F. Arnold Hill and
Irene GOins.' Mrs. Irene Coins is a bril-
liant and noble woman; Mr. F. Arnold HILL
is an intelligent and gentlemanly young
man. lie does not possess the intellectual
ability Of Professor Kelley Miller, Dr. Du
Bos, Mr.. James Weldon johnson, DR..
Francis j. Grmke, Hon. Archibald H.
Grimke or George Washington Forbes. He
does not possess the grasp Of sociology of
DR.. r. r. Wright, Jr., and he lacks the
magnetic personality Of some of the A. NJ
b. Bishops, or Prof. John R. Hawkins,
DR.. Reverdy C. Ransom and VIM. Pickens.
And we can't conceive how a capable and
efficient executive and administrative Off
Ger OF the National League on Urban Con-
dltlons, who is neither extraordinary i'm
ability nor personality can be classified as
an liable leader''
When white men refer to a man as
leader they refer to a man of intellectual
power, whose power Of mind gives him
intellectual ascendancy, like William James.
Josiah Royce, George Trumbull Ladd, Will
liam Graham Sumner, David Lloyd George,
Ellhu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge and Phil
ander X. Knox. And the new Negro is
making such strides intellectually that men