The broad ax., 1921-06-25
THE CHEAP NEGRO
BY DR.. II. A Majors


Once IN a great while one meets
here and there some fellow who you'd
think vas q real man when If the
truth was known there is nothing but
an empty hulk passing himself of as
merely an excuse, instead of the real
quality. The old time Negro who
used to bow before white folks, and
use a contemptuous grin and easy
grace to emphasize his inferiority has
given place to the young up-to-date
Negro who believes in himself, m his
God and IN his race.
There is really some excuse for the
fellow who by heredity IS bequeathed
a poverty of blood, the elements OF
which coursed the veins of the father
who truckled and stopped to the mas
ter and the devilish overseers of slay-
cry days. This kind of Negro -four
ished IN those dark days because he
did not possess any manhood, and was
plant ID the hands Of the people who
owned him body and souL II is q
BIT out of harmony with the present
period Of the worlds progress to find
anybody upholding such . spirit, or
putting into practice those debased
feelings Of inferiority that favor might
follow fawning.
The welfare Of the Negro race is
now to be determined on the principle
of sterling manhood. Bowing and
STOPPING, and bending, having that
humble spirit to submit freely to the
whims Of anybody without making q
manly protest has cost the race years
of humiliation and oceans of tears.
OF course our hearts go out to the
fellow who is lacking in the manhood
to sacrifice position, and faVors, to
stand up like a map and fight des-
perafeIy the races fight to sustain
those noble preachments Of an OPP
pressed, and too frequently outraged
people.
We have the kind we have been
describing in and out of the church,
IN and out of law, in and ont of medi-
cine, in and out Of the pulpit, in and
out of business. And this is the kind
of skullduggery that has been the
chief handicap to the race God have
mercy on us, weighted down with
such insists in high places. We have
but too freely charged up to the white
race the sin Of omission, and COM
mission, feeling that our suffering was
attributable to our condition alone,
but We have, alasl too often erred;
our burden has been all the greater,
and harder to bear because we left
responsibility IN the hands of cow
ardly puppets, mistaken for big men.
who for a mess Of pottage bartered
away our rights and benefits. shaking
a thirst and hunger for their own pro-
motion.
Il is such a pity that there are such
creatures still alive. The poison ooze
Of such perhdious vipers have
brought almost general stagnation to
the entire race. As long as We havs
the sneak in high places among OUT
group there win be serious troubls
to our development. because every
low migrate among them viii champ
ion the cause Of the white race to our
race detriment.
We are 20 feel always the power O
truth and rizhteoushess, and We are t.
contend for everything that fan.
within the lines Of cur struggle up
wards. Syeophants. toadies, white
follss worshippers have been as detri
mental to rs as the gambler, crook
and immoral reprobate. The sooner
We as people put such Tx 10 sons
isolated place where we win not have
20 saHer The reproach and humilia-
ion augmented By their kind L WI
Be al The better.
We know that some white people
DISREGARD rs. and look upon n
chesply because they know that there