Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1922-01-28
cant Of the White House is. Ho Say. :.

Your doctrine OF eternal difference
Is contrary to the scientific, ethical
and social tendencies Of tho age. The
human race is moving toward unity,
not diversity. The ancient barriers oil
caste, religion and race are being
thrown down by the onward sweep Of
cosmic forces. The varieties OF gifts.
talents and attuinments OF different In.
diyiduals, races and nations Of man.
kind are easily interchangeable and
modifiable by contact and culture The
rapid means Of communication ana
transmission Of intelligence are bring.
Ing the ends Of the earth into moment
airy touch. No longer can any race or
nation expect to hold its peculiar cul.
ture in alright compartments. You
and l. Mr.. President, are about tho
Same age. 1t is reasonable hope ana
expectation that We shall both live to
see the time when aerial communities
ton between Toxic and New York will
be as expeditions as land communicl-
ton Is at present between Washington
and Chicago. Where people meet and
mingle, differences disappear and un.
suspected likenesses are revealed. Tue
culture Of mankind flows from tho
higher to the lower levels and tends,
with increasing facility to cover the
earth as the waters cover tho sea.
What can we say more? DR.. Kelly
Miller has by comparing ages with thu
President announced to the world that
no Is as yet In his prime. After reau
ing, the product Of his active mind, we
knew this without being told. He says:
Your audience must have received
your remarks about tho imposslbili.y
of amalgamation with measure Of
amusement mixed with amazement. a
glance over the c0lored section Of your
audience would have convinced yOl,
that amalgamation IL not a theory, but
fact. No discerning eye was keen
enough to tell where the white strain
left of and the Negro began. In face OF
these stubborn facts your statement Is
hard to understand. According to the
18th Census, there were over 5000, OhO
mulnttoes in the United States. This
albescent contingency OF tho Negro
race was not produced by the semi.trop
ical climate OF the Southland, as South
ern white men know full we'll. No won
der your audience received this deliver
ance in silence. It Is lido for white
men to pirate about race purity whlla
they practice race promiScuity. There
Is need Of plain speaking on this point
It ID needless to blink the facts, II
may DO permitted to use your own ex
preston. or, like the ostrich, to engage
in comDlncent self-tleception. The white
man has never failed to mingle hi
blood with the darker races wherever
he has met them in all tho ends OF thu
earth. According to President Roose
welt. Brazilian statesmen are convinc
ed that their method OF benevolent
amiga nation is more effective col
vent Of the race problem than the An
glo-SaIon policy Of social segregation
In South Africa million and hal
Europeans have already produced ono
half thor number of mulnttoes. the
production Of this composite progeny
constitutes on important factor in thu
solution Of the race problem not only
IN the United States Of America, bu
throughout tho world.
This Is the most interesting part @
the discussion. It has been referred tt
in these columns time and again ,nt
It Is against this kind OF amalgamattol
that the colored people have united II
one solid phalanx. Amalgamation wa
going on during tho days Of SLAYER!
and It has been accumulated during tn
days Of freedom. Black folks common
ly known as Negroes have become 81
mixed up that they cannot toll ono par
OF themselves from the other. They n
longer need white wives out OF tn
|. white race for they have been bleaehe
o,t among their own people.
Blue eyes and auburn and golde,
heir are az much an asset. among CO
ored folks az they used to be anon
, white ones. This Is ringing aDpea
to tho truth. Under the rapier-lik
thrusts, the brilliant IMAM OF letters a
Howard University scores point afte
point and in tho language Of the "shoc
> Ing" gallery rings tho bellv ever
: time. But we have gone our limit 70
this week. We must reserve furthe
observations upon this all importar
, subject for future issue. We pause
remark that DR.. Miller has rendered
I service in this discussion, not only
tho black people. but to the white PEI
ple as well. This pamphlet should i
! literally circulated to all the ends {
0 tho earth.
, BOLDLY ON TRIAL FOR HIS IiIFl