Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-23
PRESIDENT !. W. GREGORY OF THE GEO

PRESIDENT ]. W. GREGORY OF THE GEO
b; Section Of the British Association for the Advance
men Of Science in his recent address at Toronto Canada has
stepped right squarey upon the gas acceeraor OF
bv saving that coored free state America what neeoeo
10 solve the socaed racial problem The learned scientist
after stating that the betemen of the human could be
made possible by fusion but that modern students OF eugemcs
are emphatic in their beliefs that weak inferior offspring OF
undesirable tendencies would from such pracuce
pointed out that southeastern state OF Negroes might be
formed with special OF home rule under some oe
pament of federal jurisdiction In such state, so the dis
course Of the scientist asserts, the Negro race might dwell IN
peace and harmony in agriculture and industry, quarantmed
as il were from the other races of the good old u s. A
Had the learned socio!og not previously sounded the
warning that the 52O000OO0 Negro people OF the globe are
engaging in reproduction rapidly than the whites we
might have been moved by his DISCOURSE but his illusions to
the rising tide o. color apparently veneered by thin layer
Of fear This ~ have been due the fact that upon reec-
ton is recalled thai of the world population of billion
seven hundred million persons billion three hundred mil
lion of hem or about II per constitute the dark races
To imagine the remainder, 3 per cent OF white peoples
attempting to segregae the II per cent almost dream
proposition.
However the echoes of the doctors sociological voice had
scarcely ended before Dr. Hubert HARRISON Negro educator
and lecturer rose and seconded Dr. Gregory notion through
press release ascrbed to Dr. Harrison, support OF Negro
free ate and this rather than what the Brtsher sald has
caused us to crew the cap of tusy fountain pen and
record our objections.
free coored state in the u S. A. anywhere ese for
that matter upon segregation basis would place In mourning
all che elements of democracy which have been wont
10 revere cage may be all right for eae natae (anmas
wild by natue) but geographical for American people
and American institutions would be literal burial ground tor
the hopes of a nation.
What is there in political history which prescnbes such
person6ed segregation? Are the Constitution and the laws
Of both God and Of be entirely crapped by science and
an aborted civilization? What need there for geographical
walls? In fact what need there segregate the interests
Of the people of free America? IF the theory of freedom
becoming an mpractcabe one then is for Americas pop
uace to examine their hearts and be born again. review
of world history of the segregation type might open the eyes OF
all proponents Of the separate free state idea
The banefu effects of the segregated school, the segregated
railway COACH the segregated city areas the segregated grave
wards and the dream perhaps OF segregated Heaven, are
far more eloquent than the advocates OF these two scientists
With additional proofs that Jesus Christ may have been OF the
dark races segregation put practice the hereafter
might be as lonesome for the whse ship which the rats
have deserted
Away with such fancifu Dreams and with osephs coat
Of many coors beaufu behold and by the being
the one nation the children of God, Himself whom all
worship here below and whose mysteries oil and color
and habitat which we cannot yea which need not under
stand are insignificant when compared with Christian devotion
and brothery love.