Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1922-07-22

citizens Of color, who subscribe to the
Declaration Of independence and who
believe that the Thirteenth, Four.
tecnth and Fifteenth Amendments to
the Constitution of the United States
recognize them as entitled to all IT
the privileges Of the original instru-
ment cannot follow, either DR.. Dl
Bots into the Socialis. camp or Mr..
Carney into the purely African camp.
a largo contingent Of co!ored people
living in this country are just Amer.
cans and will pay taxes and offer up
their lives for this Government. Owing
to this fact, they are in line with
Henry Lincoln Johnson, insisting upon
the right to aspire to office and to holl
the same when SO elected,
They claim tho right to accommo-
dations Oh on-discriminating basis
with any other citizen in this countr,
regardless Of race, color or previous
condition Of servitude. They believe
that people, holding license from the
public should serve tho public, all tho
public, colored folks included. If this
issue should como between Africa and
the United Stateso Of America, this
class OF colorod people, Americans
would owe allegiance to tho country
In which they were actually born.
This is the line Of cleavage between
these two elements.
The trouble has been that tho Ne
groes. who belong in the Du Bois
camp have been trying to do business
III the Garvoy, camp and the people OF
the other types have found themselves
III the Henry Lincoln Johnson camp.
Some times, tho Carney type Of Negro
has found himself in the Du Bots
camp. Whenever this has taken place,
Il howl has been the result, which has
emphasized n dissatisfaction, which
is In measure was limited.
Then comes another tyne Of Negro,
who belong to the Robert Russo Motion
camp. They represent the class of col
ored people, who are in Il great meas.
nrc servile in their attributes anI
habits. They believe in being helped
by white folks and they tell about the
helpless condition of colored people
and the need for money to help them.
They champion industrial education
and the interest the southerners IN
general and the northerners in parti-
culnr with the idea that better sery.
ants can be obtained by the use Of the
industrial system and that the south
en- section will be benefited by
more skilled class Of colored people,
who have learned how to serve. They
delight in preparing statistics rs 10
the progress Of colored folks along
these particular lines and as n result
secure private donations and public
donations to aid the cause.
They secured virtual army of wo1),
ers on salaries to do this work md
they keep philanthropic white people
informed as to the Improvement in
nome life and industrial energies IN
all parts Of this great land OF ours.
Millions Of dollars are available for
THIS purpose and ever since Gen. S. c.
Armstrong outlined the plan and lef.
a black disciple in the person of Dr..
Booker II. Washington this work has
prospered. Those, who dc not sub.
scribe to the Robert Russo Motion tyne
or leadership have no cause for com.
paint. There are hundreds Of thons.
ands. OF colored people, who can adj
vance intellectually no further than
the standard, this distinguished leader
has set.
Let him alone. The work is needed
me small proportion of the Other
class can seek their own leaders and
accomplish wonders along their par.
ticular lines.