The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-04-09
NAUSEATlNG.

It is nauseating to read the rot
given out by R. R. Motion, principal
of Tuskegee, as he travels through
the South in jimcrow cars, stopping
now and then to make speeches laud-
ing his oppressors. If he were the
only one to suffer it would matter
little, but his words are promptly
telegraphed all over the country, and
every time he opens his mouth the
colored people of the entire country
sink lower in the minds of those who
read. Many of his statements are
wholly without foundation in fact.
For instance in a recent lecture
before the students of the University
OF North Carolina, the wires say he
said: '"The Negro race has advanced
further than any similar number of
colored people anywhere on the globe
because it has had the privilege of
coming in contact with the white
people of the South" Could any,
thing with a smaller amount of truth
and greater amount of servility be
compressed into one sentence?
The census Of Brazil shows that
there are about 100000 people
with more or less Negro blood in
that country, or nearly twice as many
as there are in the United States,
according to census figures. And the
colored people of Brazil, although
they were once slaves and were not
emancipated until 1883, a quarter of
a century after Lincoln's proclama-
ton, have advanced further than the
colored people in this country be-
cause they have reached the point
where color does not count. They
are absolutely free from any civil or
social determinations. The color line
does not exist in Brazil, and the
BLACKLIST Brazilian is in every way
the peer of the whitest of his
countrymen.
Principal Motion deems it a. wonder
full thing that his race 'has had the
privilege of coming into contact with
the white people of the South" Here
are some of the benefits of the con-
tact: Two hundred and fifty years
Of slavery; enactment of the in
famous Black Codes to retain slavery,
in fact, after its abolition; segrega-
ton; denial of living wages; denial
of equal school facilities; disfranchise-
ment; jimcrow cars, etcetera. Why
even Tuskegee Institute which fur
nishes Principal Motion his bread and
butter is the gift Of the North.
Northern people have given IS per
cent of the endowment fund, and the
greater portion of the running ex-
penses is begged in the North. The
state of Alabama gives the measly
sum of about $4,000. ~. z~
Here is another gem from Prin-
cipal Motion: ''To the Southern white
people we owe our language and our
religion and all that we have learned
and all that we have advanced in
civilization Think of man who
would say such things being the
head of an institution which trains
the youth. Is it strange that many
of the students come out imbued
with distorted ideas of their proper
place in the world? .
Then Principal Motion came out in
his peroration in which he said that
"no Southern colored man wanted
social equality" In that statement
he showed his ignorance of the Eng
lish language? He probably meant
to say that the colored people were
not seeking matrimonial alliances
with white people. Principal Motion
may not wish social equality, but
there are millions of colored people
who do desire it. Social equality
means, Equality in the collective
body composing a community, espe-