The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-09-09
AMERICANS
SOW HATRED
THRU EUROPE

NEW YORK CITY, Sept o
"Wherever a certain class OF Ameri-
can tourists go in Europe they con-
tinually and industriously endeavor to
convince Europeans that the Negro II
the United States is ignorant, crimi-
nal. vicious, and above all rapist,
ever ready to criminally assault white
women ard restrained only by sheer
brute force in the form of lynching.
was the statement made by Arthur I.
Long, Principal of large public
school in indianapolis, Ind, who has
just returned after spending more than
two months in France, Germany, Italy
and Switzerland, according to an
nouncement by the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
People.
Bow to Gold.
They never tell of the decent, self
respecting, progressive colored people, >
Mr.. Long continued, the best that
they ever say is usually some story
about a good darby or COON. I'm
fortunately, this work has been car
ried on so extensively that it is being
felt in countries where a few years ago
there was no thought of race preju
dice. Americans, spending lavishly,
are naturally catered to by French,
German and other merchants and bust
ness men. Thus economic pressure is
making people free from prejudice bow
TO American racial bitternesses.
"On the other hand, there seems to
me to be considerable knowledge in
Europe of the facts about the race
problem in America. Largely due to
the attempt of America to assume the
moral leadership of the world as we'll
as the financial mastery, Europeans
consider the race question in America
and the burning alive of human beings
to be the acid test of the genuineness
OF American moral ideals. Europe is
TO be regretted that there seems to be
no adequate means at present Of get
ting the real truth before Europe.
Many Spread Lies.
All Americans who go to Europe
can be divided, with only few excep-
tons into two classes. One of these is
that group l have already spoken Of
those who deliberately spread lies
about the Negro. The other class is
about the problem. Very few white
AIIGi lNdDS GNEl ldht TIC AllllN Vi lllN
trouble to tell the truth, even if they
true fact, that in all the time l was in
Europe, the only really good things
said about the Negro were said by
Frenchmen and Englishmen.'
Mr.. Long was asked about the truth
of the charges made in the United
States Senate on August 81 by Sena-
r ~ Al. 4.
colored troops were committing ex
cesses on German women in the oc-
cupied zones. He replied, 81 was in
Germany two weeks and during that
time, though | was at Mayence where
French troops are quartered, as we'll
as at Cologne where the British troops
are stationed, and at Coblenz where the
American forces are, never heard one
word of any such charges. 1t does
seem to me that il there had been the
slightest grounds for such charges l
would have at least have gotten an
mixing of it. The real reason is easy
to understand. The Germans natur-
ally want the occupation forces re-
moved. They are wise enough to know
that Americas blind spot is her race
prejudice, and that an appeal TO that
race prejudice is the most potent argu-
ment they car make to Americans, es-
pecially when that appeal is made to
the tune of a charge that black men
are raping white women"
Perhaps one of the most interest
ing things l observed" Mr.. Long con-
tinued, was the fact that Americans
as soon as the ship left American soil
seem to feel that the ban OF color was
lifted and restrictions were removed
People who would not think of treat
ing colored people dccently in Amer
lea for fear of exciting comment or
scorn, actually became friendly and
acted like human beings. My conelu-
sion is that the atmosphere of Amer
lea is conducive to race-hatred and
Negro-baiting-that the so-called race
prejudice is not inherent at all but is
artifcally created and maintained as
a sort of fetish in the United States" -
Mr.. Long covered a great deal of
territory while abroad and tells most
interestingly the story OF his expe-
riences.