The Brunswick news., 1922-12-02
VAST AUDIENCE
HEARS DR.. MOTION
ON RACE QUESTION
CONTINUED from page one)

casional clashes between the races
in the south, but hears little of the
hundreds Of cases of usual and help
ful cooperation between blacks and
whites that take place daily in eyer%
community in the south The tirs
has now come when We should e,S
phasize the thousands Of good things
that are happening right shere Il.
Brunswick, in. Georgia, and through \
out the south, rather than the o
casional bad things: and We, as
grQes, must not permit the
lapseAhere and there on the pf
a feE. 9b9ughtless white peopl.
freq u lDisrepresent their b
race to befog those strong unmista
able idenees of friendship and co
opeT don on the part, not only or
tlle jieading white people, but fre
q1ently on the average white person
as well. On the other hand, we want
TO ask the white people not to allow
the acts of the comparatively few
ignorant criminal members Of my
race who humiliate and disgrace our
race, to mar the good feeling that
betweesfls, and to blind them
fact Mat whatever may be
d done, the Negro believes in
&c race, and earnestly asks
and fair cooperation; ands
Negro is willing to give higr
utmost in cooperation With
the vi lie people to make the south
all than it is possiblessor It to be-
come. ~
The p Rgress that Negroes IN
America continued ~Dr. Motion.
"haye made in the last six years is
most remarkable from every angle
The thousands Of successful business
enterprises, the accumulation q
property on the part of thss black
race, including twenty-two %hillion
acres of land, and ninety-dve million
dollars worth of church property, and
the reduction OF illiteracy to less than
twenty Per cent, saving nothing
about the Improvement in moral
ideals of the Negro people, is most
helpful and encouraging
q "It is grati g. to me that we
here little 1&M s of Mis foolish
question Of Eq ~, beisss
brought M to disturb goo
ing on the part of hoc1S Faces
zach other SyakAaa Negro asi
better educa itieA. adj ate
sanitary arr q of
the city, good r1as n his mart go
lions, haK not seekir equal
ity," pc Is asking ie JUS
tice, treated on his moral in
teliectGM and economic merits
This, then, is not ques
social equality" which is as
tant for the good of the VIII
as it is for the good of th.M
race, The white race is noI Rsir to
itself when ii is unfair and unjust
to q weaker group The black race is
unfair to itself If it permits itself
to become embittered or to hate the
white race, Two races in the south
have lived, fought. sacrificed and
died for a. other and for our be
loved SOU ii nd. aud the relations
between Zoe races and We're never
better ii ire Of all that is said
We never III more strong, unseltish.
God fearing white friends right here
in Georg and in every state in the
south, tN4n we have now count
among my best and most helpful
friends in Alabama and in Tuskegee
the white people of my state and
community ;"
Presidenr 4. v Wood, Of the
Board Of Education, who has always
been enthusiastic on the subject
of education. made a few remarks
before the address of Dr.. Motion and
paid q high tribute to the student
body and the teachers Of the Risley
schools Pre- ident Wood also said
many complimentary things about
~ Motion aud commended him s@ae
:he KIND consideration Of all Of
aeouIe of the city
Some old time plantation mel58
ed b. = member of the Motion narf
was an attractive number on the&
Program II
The party left in the afternoon for
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