The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-06
Black Colonies Lost
Germany Losing Interest

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had l lived in an entirely colored
community and lone white stran.
ger passed.
Besides. their gaze has a different
meaning. In parts OF Pennsylvania
parts Of Illinois and the South, II
would very likely. mean, that the
Khan or other delegation OF promi-
nent citizens were going to wait
upon me with the gentle Injunction:
"Nigger. don't let the sun go down
on YOU" g BIZ
However, the barbarous Huns do
things a bit differently. At the hotel
the proprietor seemed as If he could
not do enough for me. at the res
taurant the manager. himself, came
and sat down by me-he could
speak little English-while all
around were the same curious bat
friendly gazes. As I said l found
the people all over Germany very,
very friendly-a fact that made me
feel like kicking myself a hundred
times because l hadn't learned the
language.
had been in Berlin several days
before / saw a single Negro, and
when l did il was a white man and
a colored woman walking on the
Frederichstrasse. Both looked as II
they belonged to the upper middle
class.
One good reason why there are so
few Negroes in Germany Is because
there is no work for them. What
few there are seem to be nearly all
musicians, and even these are having
difficulty now. I talked with about
twenty. all of them from the former
German colonies, and they said they
had considerable difficulty in getting
work because the white musicians
were insisting that Germans should
be given the preference. They said
that now Germany had lost her col
onies she had lost interest in the
Negro. Some had served in the Ger
man army, and one in the navy.
Nearly all CT these Negroes seem to
speak English, many of them having
played in England.
Every Negro l saw in Berlin was
at least fairly well-dressed, as / said
before. though several of them said
they hadn't been able to get job in
months. Please do not ask me how
this is done, as / will be forced to
choose between being truthful and
being polite.
And at this l am having a hearty
augh. l am recalling the propaganda
that was waged in Congress and in
America against the French colored
troops on the Rhine on the state
ment that their presence was a stud
led insult to the German women.
The simple truth is that in Germany
as in every other part of Europe a
very large percentage of men and
women seem to find special delight
in sex associations with Negroes,
precisely as do white men and wo-
men in America, their descendants.
The single difference is that in Eu-
rope. with no color prejudice, the
couples appear in daylight. while
in America it is like Nicodemus-
by night.
In my book on race-mixing, for
which | might find a publisher in
the next fifty years. have quoted
from Macmillan Harden, leading
German journalist; from Ivan Bloch,
foremost German sexologist; from j.
Ellis Parker; and from Dreisel's
Report to the United States Senate,
in proof of the fact that the Negro
in Germany had no need to run af-
ter the women when they would
come at them through the barrack
windows.
In one chapter of the book re-
ferred to. l quoted from not less
than twenty foremost white thinkers
to show the fondness of white men
and women for sex association with
Negroes. Among them was the
famous satirist, Juvenal, who lived
in the First Century, A. d. My in
designations in Europe have every
where confirmed, so far as l am
concerned, what these writer's have
said. Still suppose we'll still have
to listen to what our white sociolog-
lists say about antipathy because OF
physical differences.
In a restaurant at Leipzig / or
dered dinner, and what / got was
enough for a small family. The leg
Of veal, deliciously cooked, would
be five or six portions in New
York restaurant. drank coffee.
while the hundreds of others either
dining or listening to orchestra,
each had a schooner Of beer
Schooners, forced to be submarines
in America, flaunt themselves quite
brazenly here. AS 10 being alone
with my coffee, consoled myself
with the thought that they knew l
was from America, and, oh well,
wasn't supposed to know any bet
ter.
The Germans take an interest al
most estate in eating and drink
ing, even more than the Dutch II
seems to me. And although the good
old days are past when the table
used to groan and moan, or what
ever ii is a table does with West
phalian hams, Strassburg pies, Pom
eranian goose-breasts, Brunswick
sausages, and Bavarian beer, still
the zest in eating remains. One
Roman writer,-was 1t julius Gaze
sar or Tacitus? said that the intes-
final output of the German was dou-
Bile that OF any other people. AS
recall IL was nut much more naugh-