The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-26

The aristocracy of the south, which could bt
called much accurately the southern degeneracy
appears in its warfare on the Negroes in the
panoply of a champion preserving the purity Of
the Nordic strain.
To keep the Anglo-Saxon blood stream untinged
by the mingling of the two races is considered al
enterprise worthy of unlimited praise. In pursuit
of this high purpose the horrible deaths suffered
by Negroes at the hands of white mobs is supposed
to be a small price to pay.
just what is this bugaboo of the race mixture!
Is it bad per Sc and is there such thing as pure
racial stock? Is the so-called. white race distinct
product of nature unaffected by the fact that black
and yellow races inhabit the same planet? Does
the maintenance Of racial inequality, expressing
itself in suppression of one particular preserve
the racial purity of either the dominant or the
quered race?
Answers have been given by science to all these
questions answers uncolored by racial prejudice
That the facts as established by impartial investiga
ton are not more widely known is a tribute to
the censorship powers of the Negro haters and
baiters.
In the first place science has been unable to
establish that racial mixtures alone produce in
feriors The offspring of mixed unions maybe and
often are INFERIOR but this is shown to be the result
of social and not biological conditions.
The white race is no more a pure stock than are
the yellow and brown races. 1t is an amusing fact
that the race most despised by the white ruling
class-the Negro-is the purest racial stock in
the last and most important question, that of the
effect of racial discrimination and suppression in
maintaining racial purity of the dominant group
let us hear from scientist Doctor Alain Locke Of
Harvard university, Rhodes scholar and special
list in ethnOlogy:
say it Is my opinion that amalgamaton
proceeds much rapidly where the races
socially and economically unequal and that it is this
kind of mscesenation that is from both NEGRO and
Caucasian points Of view undesirable.
Considering that the considerable amount of
ntermxture has up until recently been the outcome
Of such exploitation of the economically and socially
weaker group, must, think, conclude that al
most any degree of amalgamation in the future could
not produce deterioration Of physical stock Of the
standard of living this country, since it has
done so thus far.
Theoretically then, unbiased mind be OPP
posed to principle of amalgamatiOn. On the
whole, nature has answered that question afirma
lively
1t will be seen by the above that the suppression
of a race automatically increases the number 0
racial mixtures Doctor Locke is not alone in thi
opinion it is generally held by all Investigators an,
lis the result of exhaustive research A Negro burne
at the stake becomes in the light of sober scentif
judgment a torch which lights the path on whicl
the male and female of both races meet ant
ninge. ses
Science establishes the basis for programs an
action but it cannot liberate the Negro. 1t is use
less to try to reason with the holders of blin
hatreds. Thorold Rogers, a great English SC
biologist, said many years ago:
''No time is so much wasted as that spent i
arguing with persons who have strong conviction
but no knowledge"
Our job is not to convert the capitalist class o
the north and south. Our job is to destroy tn
prejudices injected into the mass mind of tn
working class by capitalist publicists. This wor
must keep step with organization of both blac
and white workers The mass pressure of both j
the only thing that will wipe out the horrors Q
racial strife under capitalism.
Freedom for all races can come only with tn
dictatorship of the working class building the Con
munist society.