The broad ax., 1921-01-22
PERFORMING A GREAT DUTY,
See The Broad Ak Hall of Fame.
BY Monroe A. Majors, NJ. D.

The Broad AK is doing work that
no Negro paper has ever before at
tempted in bringing weekly before
the reading public the good opinion
that is expressed in its columns anent
our progressive element
Chicago is one of the very few
cities in the world where personal
worth is given such serious consid-
Grafton. Where the ability and the
qualification of the individual is so
highly rated. Where so little atten-
ton is given to color if the prere-
quisites are not absebt
Today we represent every force IN
great nature attuned TO the harmony
of a happy life. We have the spirit
of the modern civilization to carry
forward the very highest principles OF
human progress, and secure in the
things that make a race respected, we
persist along lines wherever We have
been hitherto denied to show our
ability and skill
1t is a long step for a people long
wronged by a system of cruel usage.
More than any one thing else is the
thing we have got to do for our
selves, and chiefly that which will lift
us up in the estiamtion of those who
have so long delightfully."- misused and
abused US. Our saddest misfortune
is the contempt in which we are held
by those that know so little about
us. We have a herculean work, a
stupendous work to undertake and
carry forward in trying as best we
may to emphasize the qualification of
our really worth while citizens.
The spirit of the race is mounting
higher than it ever has before There
never has been time when we could
put so much of our worth in the
analytical scales. There never was a
time when we were as sober and .seri-
Gus as we are today. There never
was so much of the different phases
of our struggles, our strife, our sue
cesses; in fact, we have become so
much a part of the social fabric of
the world that we need not empha-
size, OF specify in too large a degree.
A very large element in the races
of mankind have come to look upon
the requirements, rather than re-
quirements, of the man and woman.
We have come long distance from
the jamestown colonies. Our powers
and adaptation, our endurance and
our belief in God is very much &C
countable for our racial existence,
and we need not blubber over in fool
ish and vain notions that we are here
today because there was any such
thing as mercy in the paganism
which ran counter to everything holy
and righteous
Pat yourself on The back and be
proud that the slave system did not
work your fathers and mothers to
death. 1t tried to do it all right. Be
proud that the paganism of the coun-
try did not overcome your staying
qualities. 1t was the same Drawn and
muscle that has saved this country
from pitiless starvation, and made
wealthy a multitude of infamous in
CRATES who are perpetually screech-
ing about superior race"
The best behaved man Is the SUI
perior man and being the color Of
a goat has. nothing to do with II. The
many educational tests which well
nigh reaches beyond our recollection
proves that the entire color scheme
is the greatest cheat in the universe
But today no one can hardly tel
whether he or she is what most peo-
pie think they are
The Broad Ak has nothing to do
with the color question. and IS firm in
the proposition laid down IN the
Bible. and in the preamble in the
constitution Of the United States,
That ali men are created equal"