The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-01-10
RACE DISCRIMINATION Is
BLAMED ON CHURCH


Columbus - Jan Utter TALL
ure Of the Christian Church TO Chris
tianize and the presence Of Just -
much meanness in the world since the
advent Of Christianity a before" are
the cause Of discrimination against
Negroes DR.. Gilbert H. Jones. presi-
dent Of WiIberforce University, de-
clared in addressing 4 meeting to pro-
mote Racial COOPERATION and IN
Outstanding The meeting was at
tended BY large number Of promi-
nent coIored and white people
Bruno Lasker r. Speaker
Dislike " colored people i due to
ignorance Of the true characteristics
and economic conditions OF the race
rather than to instinct and such feel
ings may be obliterated, declared
Bruno Lasker. New York, executive
secretary. Race Relations Commits
sions OF National Conference on Chris
tan Way Of Life.
A group Of songs was sung by a
quartet from Wherefore University
and solo was sung By Mrs. Helen J.
! Williams. The meeting was under
the auspices Of Columbus Urban
League Of which N. B. Allen is exc
cutive. Rev. Gilbert 5. Cox, presi-
dent, another speaker, defended the
| Christian Church, declaring many pas
tors are interpreting race intolerance
As unChristian.
Race discrimination ought not TO
be present. but is" DR.. Jones said.
The problem is so enormous, SO de-
tailed in its ramihcations and 50 stu
pendous, wonder if we can do any
thing about it. Christianity is a fine
bunch Of theological doctrines. There
is none better in the world, but II Is
a bunch of theological doctrines to be
lput off on some one else. Christian
ity doesn't seem TO Christianize and
the world goes on with just about as
much cussedness in il as before Chris
tianity came.
Ordinary Human Problem"
Race discrimination il just an or
binary human problem with lots of
the devil in il. Back of the efforts to
restrict the Negro to certain blocks
and districts Of the city is a motive
that has not been shown.
What does the other fellow get out
LOT mistreating the Negro2 Some form
OF race prejudice has existed since
time began, although it has not al
ways been on color lines Where one
race is bound to another and held
as bondsmen and serfs, the subjected
race has had to 90 through what the
colored people endure.
People wish for tolerance, the end,
without knowing the means to achieve
this end, Mr. Lasker said. "People
say that race prejudice Is as old as
the ages, that It IS an instinct and
that one never can bring It to an end.
But one cannot have an instructive re-
lpulsion to a color Do you have any
Propulsion TO the color Of chocolate
candy?
1T Is not instructive. 1t is ac-
lquired. and If we admit that Il i
acquired. we must admit also that
We can be rid of it People who talk
about Nordic superiority generally
are duh.
-UnfavorabIe experiences set the
keynote and we become conscious or
l. dislike for colored people long after
We have forgotten the experience
which created the feeling. When we
hear Southern Negroes making out
that Christ was a colored man, we
have feeling that they are sacri-
lligious- We picture Him a. a man
with blue eyes and long flowing locks,
whereas be actually looked like one
OF the Arabs OF today.
do yon know how the Nordics &C
tually gained their power and pre-
dominance in the world today7 They
were sailors and learned to obey their
icaPtains During storm, the one
who would not obey the leader was
the first to be thrown overheard. Ii
was their unity Of action that gave
them their successes IN their early
raids and what makes them success
full today