The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-08-12
THINKINc OF THE BEST SIDE
OF NEGRO LIFE
By Dr.. II. A. Majors

All men are created equal, II Is S@iN'
p,,, III men are not created equal
That all men are said to be created
email means 50 far IS law is con-
eerned that in the eyes Of the law no
man is above another man. All naeh
have the same number of bones, mus
eies. nerves, two eyes, two ears, two
hands and Eve fingers and i've toes
ETC. but because they have the same
rumber of bones, muscles and nerves,
etc that does not make them equally
strong. equal in size or cherish equal
notions and ideas, nor ideals. Let US
see Il we cannot offer a truism that
win stand ND and possibly defy con-
tr.diction. No man is equal to an
other man, nor are they created equal
with the same qualities Of heart, mino,
or body. Environment may make al
parrots equal, it could make all mon
KEYS equal, all fish equal, ETC.; but
when it comes to man environment
haIks. Out of the same environment
have come the minister, the lawyer
the woman reformer, the crook, burg
lar, murderer and confidence man.
What has given some their opportun-
ity to rise, has inspired some others
to fall, by allowing the lowest force
in the human economy to grow up IN
their lives, and eventually dominate
their entire being.
What has offered opportunity to
some to become benefactors OF their
brethren, has on the other hand Of
Tered opportunities to others to be-
come sneaks, and thieves, defaulters,
etc; thus in the fowl kingdom all
boosters are not equal, neither are all
hens equal, and we might ramble an
cient, modern and medieval history,
through the jungles if you please and
ali over natural history and we viii
fail utterly IN our vain quest for proof
that there abides any where on this
earth any such thing as human equal
ity. A great many people have be-
come imbued with the thought that
white is superior TO black, of course
there are not as many fools today as
there used to be, and even then there
are ten times as many brown, black |
and yellow people as there are white
people who don't believe any such |
nonsense. So after all we who don't
believe white is superior to black are
vastly and preponderantly in the ma
jority.
When God got ready to change
things down in Egypt He sent Abra-
ham there in search for an African
woman to be the Iineal ancestor OF
Christ. When He wanted sweet music
that could charm world He sought
out a blind black boy, Blind Tom.
When God was ready 10 speak His
truths IN poetry He selected Phyllis
WheafIy and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
When God was ready to lift the wages |
Of slavery from millions of human
beings He sent Frederick Douglass
out Of the house of bondage to the
New England states, thence to En-
rope to ripen his brain for the work
He had for the great Douglass to do.
When God was ready to raise the IN
dustrial scales from the eyes of fen1i
million Negroes who knew only how
IN very moderate degree TO wiring
from toll the guarantee of . better Il
existence by learning trades to insure
: better living wage he sent Booker
T. Washragson TO Tusksgee and then
to chapn a xohd with song He pm
he suNet auriole Of an angei's voice
n the thrnst Of Flora Batson. Anita
Patti Brown and Antonette Garnes- |,
When God got ready to choke the
rasraiity Of the South and huri def L
snee into the very teeth Of nn-whipped |
devils 81 the eoWardly and murderous
South Re took John Mifsheil. Jr., Ida 4
Wells Rarneit Thomas Fortune. w. /,