Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-06-28
REV. TITLE WR|TESO ON
THE NEGROES PLACE
(Rv. Rev. Ernest Fremont Tlttle' III
- l...ann1in Sunday Star.l

nv. Rev. Ernest Fremont Ilttle' IL
the Indianapolis Sunday Starr
az remember reading some time as-
. statement made by Prof. Commons
of the University OF Wisconsin 10 en no
effect that the Teutonic race until ovu
wears after Christ, was eXceeuine1y
primitive in their ciylllzatlon' ye' h'u
mental qualities which maze II poSsl'
ble for them to absorb the hlghesl NJ,
man civilization. And l was par'loulat
Iv IMPRESSED with his assertion tn'''
.could their babes have been taheI
out of the forest 1000 years ago anu
transplanted to the homes an senoU ,io
of modern America, tney Wouiu n'e'c
covered in one generation the plosie''
OF twenty centuries. ,o hoo,
We'll YOU say, THAT may nase 49, .
nossible in the caes or the leu.on ~
race. but it is by no means possioie -
The case of the Negro race, You Mlen'
saw that if you did not know nlooss d.
"Glancing through a pamphte. puO
tished by Garrett Biblical lns.i'e ~,
rsad with great surprise that the N'h
ar If one of it's students had peen q
.,,,,,age warrior l learned later .na'
+h;s student was a young African
namad Blooah; and that be mad pel
fectly Fascinating lecture en,i.i w
prom Cocoanut Tree 10 CoAese' a
that this lecture was THE perieo'i'
true story of his own life. For ne was o
ouite literally, UP in cocoanuI tre '9
when he caught sight OF the His'
,'.hite man whom either he OF any
member of his tribe lad ever so
and today he is doing post
work in an American tneoioe''"'
school. 1900. .s black
"Rlooah, a native African" DIS piaeA
90 midnight. has actually done "A"'
prof Commons cOnjectured tue Ia
t;yos of the Teutonic race might nav
done had they been taken OUT VI 'no
forest 1000 years ago ana transpl"
"a tn the homes and schools OF inou,
arn America. He has actually coseleu
in one generation the progress OIL '"SA
ty centuries. ;t, +bo Ne
Glow impatient we are vita the NC
GRO Onlv sixty years out OF slavery
vet we expect him to measure up
;he very highest standards Oh WIZ
world culture. And because Ire sotno
times fails to d. MS, we jump 10 Tue
conclusion that he is an lnnereh~s,
and therefore permanently me ~
heing who may be tolerated ohiy Il "e
keeps His Place
WHAT is THE NEGROES PAACH'
"Phe Youngest student ever to re-
ceiye the degree Of PHI. d. from .ne
University of Pennsylvania was nal
ris F.. Blackstone, Negro. oon
"In 1922, second on the llsI VI EoO
,ounq medical students examined 1or
internships at COOK County I S
taa was DR.. Walter S. Grant a Neslo,
In 1922, as the result OF iour yeaiS
stndy Smith College granted botn the
A. B.. and NJ. A, degrees 10 MISS
Eunice Hunton, Negro.
ain 1921. the prae for the pes.
French novel for the year was granteo
to Rene Marant q Negro :,
Yin 1921, the Drama League ~
America selected as one OF the ten pei
can. who during the year had contr a
Sutea most to ne arl Ct tue 'ne'''e'
Charles S. Gilpin, a Negro.
"The United States Patent once nas
Granted fifty-sevea patents to bll'"h
Mccoy, Negro. oi,,
"And there is Scott, the mural pdih'
or. and Tanner, the painter OIL reiis
ious subjects; and Charles w. SnS st
MT the novelist; and W. E. Bufgnarut
Dubois, the brilliant savant; anu w.
liam Stanley Barthwaite, the wlueis
read literary critic; and Paul Laur
ence Dunbar the poet whose
q ,av me down beneaf de willers IN the
grass, =
wbab de branchll go singin' as II
pass,
An ween rs layin' low,
I kin hyeah it as 1t go
Singin' sleep, my honey, tex 70 res
at last has made the whole WORT"
OF sensitive spirits his debtor. %
what then is the Negroes Place:
1--WE men and women OF the "n,.o
race have treated the Negro Dauly
enough, God knows. We have ialu VIZ,
lent hands upon him and taken M,
from his home in Africa to serve ia
os newer of wooG and drawer ol
water in America. We have depauclt
ed his women folk and then Drahoeu
him as immoral. We have, in many ID
stances. kept him in ignorance anu
then pronounced him hopelessly Sup
ia President Motion of Tuskegee IS
authority for the statement that TOT
? 600 600 Negro children in the Unlt-h I
States there are, even yet, no educa'
.ional facilities provided. We nave
sroafaA the Negro badly enough. Has
not the tire now come for Us to give
him a fair chance?
In his eloquent volume. TAe sous
of black Folk Burghardt, Du Bols
&c VI +bot through all the sorrow OF
the Negroes sorrow songs there
breaties hope, faith min the "'Is
mate Justice of things. 49, SOM
times it is faith of life. SometlrneS
. foitH, of death. Sometimes an assur
ance of boundless Justice in some fa'r
world beyond. But, whatever it is the
meaning is always clear-that some
time, somewhere. men will judge men
by their souls and not by their SKINS.
HAS not the time come Tor us ~
nudge the Negro by his soul-lis dem
onstrated capacity for cultural achieVe
ments-and give him a chance to re-
veal what his true Place is in. the fu-
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