The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-09-03

or transportation, until there is no
lynching North or South, until the
term Negro, no longer one of con-
tempt, but one that any man might
be proud to bear If the accident of
birth had so classed him.
Her Obstacles.
THE Negro woman is political!
Let us sum up her obstacles: First
Her color which is of itself damn
ing in the opinion of the Anglo Saxon
who can endure anything with a
better grace than that a drop of Ne
gro blood should flow through the
veins of one of the growing class.
Second: The long list of discrimina-
tons resulting from this and her
previous condition, which will seek
to confine her aspiration to mental
jobs and petty offices-oppositio
when she wants on the school board
opposition when she wants to teach
in the public schools other than those
strictly Colored; opposition when
she wants her son in the army OF
navy on the same level with any
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tains public employment.
"The federal government made her
a citizen with the privilege of the
franchise. Unhappily she has the
prejudice of many state governments
to combat before she is in full pos
session of her rights as a citizen.
"Her duty, which are privileges
First. To unite and endeavor to pre-
sent always an unbroken front
Second. To inform herself about our
government and insist that it oper-
ate equally for the benefit of the
black or white; Third. To help free
our national capitol from the hypo-
cracy 1t now parctices proclaiming
to all the world that it is the seat
of government of free people, yet
condemning large part of her
population to discrimination and seq
regation, carrying it even into the
government buildings. She will seek
to break up segregation, thereby
giving the Negro her housing facil-
tiles, equal opportunity for moral
mental and religious improvement
equal public service; Fourth. To root
out lynching of the guilty or inno-
cent and letting justice be meted to
the offender by the courts. This will
be a most difficult object to attain
for 1t seems mob violence reaches
even the white clergy when it seeks
to instruct the Negro, and minister
of the gospel is not immune from
tar and feathers; Fifth. To protect
her race in the industries and pro-
LESSONS securing to them equal oppor-
tunity with all others in common
labor, the trades and professions
She will in some instances and to
a certain degree be helped by the
Anglo Saxon, but the burden is hers
She must be increasingly vigilant,
keeping the rank and file informed
of the vital issues, educate the mass
es to pay their taxes, and comply in
every way with the laws governing
their franchise
Her Greatest Task.
Perhaps her greatest task will be
to teach the race to be loyal to it.
self, to choose its leaders worthily
and submit to their leadership, to
have faith in one another, refusing
to listen to the siren voice of the
white man when listening brings
discordance into his own ranks.
"The Negro woman in politics will
not Judas-like, accept a sop and be-
tray her people. She will eschew
the mess Of pottage which was once
before offered to and to his undoing
accepted by the male Negro. She
will rather, like Jacob, seize and hold
to the angel of opportunity when he
descends the ladder and will not
let him go until the desirable has
benn attained.
"The Negro woman in politics will
not forget that through prejudice
the Negro race in the United States
of America is a little nation growing
up inside a big nation. sharing its
burdens but refused equality.
"She will not forget God, nor to
teach her people that the nation that
forgets God surely will die. That
God hears and answers prayers now,
just as he heard and answered those
from the cane breaks and swamps
in the past, and in proportion as the
Negro woman endeavors God will
raise up friends to good government
and make of us a free united nation
living under government by the
people and for the people"