Phoenix tribune., 1921-05-28
COMMENCEMENT TIME ARRIVES

Quite colored institutions learning will
diplomas and degrees hundreds perhaps thousands Of
coored youths during this and month"; while at the
time several white schools in the North East and West viii have
quite few coored graduates
graduans both commendabe and encouraging
the same time bespeakng progress and enEghtment.
and the serious situation) where viii these
bany and highly developed young people find employment and
withal shall they find something do and in
keeping with their ability?
They have been going through grind for years preparatory
their life work and yet the has made practically places
for them
is pure and rank extravaganza to lavish money upon our
chdrens education and then refuse spend red
penny enterprises and institutions afford these ine
society
Unless as race we are going to make places our
children foolish and nonsensca to continue educate them
expects another man to provide
for and look after his family and where such situation does
exist somebody the dit generally smack of the
indecent and intemperate
No who his family will upiney by permit
others tie him hard and fast by making possible for his
wife and children to subsst at the of other
And yet many in will sit by and their
daughters sell their virtue to Of all and their
the dogs after the parents have spent large
educate them rather than form combines corporations
establishments to their blood something decent
and lucrative to do.
right complain about the races sad plight in
certain of this country but the coored races condition in
America will be altered for better for by the attitude
and action Of the itself
In ike manner racial bettement upift advance
and solidarity from within racial contingent
No Unseen Power rains down from the skies any
and those who wait and wonder in the wilderness
Nothing viii death if they expect of
sacred history repeat itself 1t is either do die
cry.
This has patience with loud-mouthed of
Ham, who always ambang educated coored youths
crying and procamng to the world that educated Negro
is failure and such
We have contempt contumey for those coored
sNhOO Let like 7
They must bear in mind that if many them had to
life equipped mentally and financially they
the earlier days OF their they would fall by the waysde
and the procession would leave them far in the
We living in progressive age and be this
and not of this age.
The Bible declares substance that he who fails to
vide for his household than indel and yet
who able to do So refuse
part for making possible for their offspring any
shape form fashion?
If would emulate the finer traits character
scs of the successful of mankind
superficial and snowy progress would be marked
prejudice would be tremendously diminished
yeop consciousness and cooperative spirit that
and confound the civilized world
Let stop handcappng children unnecessarily for
diplomas and degrees practically nothing unless the
cipents given chance to deliver the goods
Commencements will mean little to race unless we
adopt policy Of construction and cooperation rather than
of criticism and
The word Commencement" orations diplomas
degrees applause ct but the genesis
worldly Of the graduates who toed tugged and
labored order fit themselves blessing to their
and humanity.
He who would be free himself strike blow
-Ex.