The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-04-17
THE "NIGGER" IN THE SEGREGA.
TON WOoDPlLE.

teacher in Washington and an active
member of it's N. A. A. G. P, con-
cludes a vigorous news article pub
lished in the Cleveland Gazette with
words which answer the boasts of
those who get money for institutions
and houses for Colored people that
keep the races apart Says Prof.
Thomas:
81 have heard many silly Negro ad-
Vocates of segregation boast of how
much money they can raise for
Negro enterprise, too blind to see that
most any white man will contribute
literally to any movement that will
keep Colored people away from him
and make them acknowledge their in
feriority. In fact, the most dangerous
enemy of democracy with which we
have to contend, and the most serv-
iceable capitalistic tool, is organized
charity. The large donors to these
Negro charities" are making profit.
able investments when, through some
weH-paid Negro, they can establish a
separate. Y. M. c. A., Y. w. c. A. So
cial settlement, or school. These in.
stitutions aid in keeping the toiling
masses apart, so that, on the principle
OF "divide and conquer" these wealthy
donors" can exploit. So, the collec-
ton of large contributions" by these
Negro segregationists is no achieve.
ment, but another barrier to the prog
ress of the race. I we'll remember how
one of these international "secre.
taries" boosted of getting the money
to build a Negro Y. M. G. A. in the
great city Of Chicago. If that institu.
ton remains there long the great civil
rights law of Illinois will be null and
void. Already it's presence there has
popularized a movement for separate
schools and segregation as to homes
for our people,.
mo, our solution is not surrender.
but FIGHT! Let the churches and
welfare clubs of Cleveland exert extra
activity for the moral betterment of
Cleveland's youth, and your press, pull
pit, your ballot, and every other power
within you. Agitate for admission
into the associations which bear the
name of Jesus who was mo respector
of persons, until they acquire a sense
of shame"
THE APPEAL agrees with everv
word that Mr.. Thomas has written.
The Y. M. c. A., social settlements,
community SERVICE" and all similar
schemes are efforts at segregation.
pure and simple. Their purpose is to
bar the colored people from quasi-pub-
lie institutions, to which all other peo-
pie are admitted without. question. i
When the 'scolored" Y. M. C. A. was
opened in Chicago, THE APPEAL pre-.
dicted editorially that it would prove
curse, by reason of creating greater
prejudice and the prediction has been
more than verified. It will take a thou.
sand years to undo the wrong it has
done. Possibly ten thousand years
may not right the wrongs done by the
establishment of jimcrow Christianity
associations in the United States.
The man who has given so much
money to divide American Christians
along the color line is Jew. How
could it be possible for Jew to be in
terested in the Spread of Christianity?
The idea is ridiculous. The shrewds
Jew knew that by catering to the blind
prejudice of the so-called white Christ
tians would bring in dollars. He also
knew that jimcrow negroes" would
laud him for his philanthropy" and
start lot of colored mems white sill
yer dollars rolling his way. It was a
plain Jewish business proposition.
Cupidity not humanity caused him to
spend his money for his pet charity"
And it has paid. For every dollar he
has put in he has taken out two.
The colored man must fight to fin
ish any attempt to bar him from any
public or semi-public institution.