Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-02-11
NEGROES WANT RACIAL
INTEGRITY. TOO.


Racial Integrity Bill as passed By
the lower branch of the Legislature
of Virginia is in plain violation Of
the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States
in that it alleges to protect tbs
racial integrity of the white person
and affords no protection to the
racial integrity of the Negro. The
provision of the Amendment in
question reads:
''Nor (shall any Staye) deny to
any person within it's jurisdiction
he equal protection of the laws /.
The bill provides. a protection 10
the white person aga nst the inter
marriage with Negro, but makes
no provision for the protection OF a
Negro against intermarriage with q
person not a Negro. Let us see, TIC
equalize the stuation, the bill should
be so amended as to define a Negro
as being any person, who may have
no perceptible trace of white blood
n his or her veins.
It defines a Negro as being any
person. having perceptible Eace OF
Negro blood in the veins. In plain
language, the proportion of blood
incidental to the regarding or the
specifying of person as a white
individual or as an Indian shall net
apply to any person, who may have
any Negro blood in their veins. what
soever. This bill should be amended
so as to read that no person, who
may have any perceptible trace OF
white blood in their veins shall We
regarded or classified as a Negro.
These anxious seat gentlemen.
who are DESTROYS of undoing the sins
of many centuries viii at least be
credited with endeavoring to play
fair. They should accord to the Ne
groes, the Simon pure, genuine
black .blooded Negroes the same pre-
lection they are asking for them
selves. Let them eliminate the word
"colored" as applicable to the Ne.
groes of the pure, African stock and
they will rid the poor, derided blacks
of the incubus and responsibility Of
shouldering this mighty army Ut
mulattoes, Quadroons octoroons and
now fifty thousand more white folks
who will overnight be placed in the
legal category Of Negroes, although
they will still be what they have
always been. the legitimate and IL
legitimate off'springs of white folks.
You are. defining and legislating
that no person with Negro, blood 70
the least degree can ne legally
rec gnized as a white person, then
define and legislate mat no person
with white blood in the veins 70 the
least degree shall be legally rec
ognized as a Negro. AS the ma
ter now stands, the pure, unadul'
terated Negroes hero are loaded
down and he'd responsible for all
kinds and sorts of r"on'a masquer-
aiding as Negroes when they are not
Negroes. We have Oh 'nese Negroes
Japanese Negroes, Mevican Negroes
Indian Negroes, &C. man Negroes,
French Negroes, Fr"'isA Negroes,
Italian Negroes, Jew Negroes, Irish
Negroes and last but ~ least, either
as to quality or gu" nt'ty We have
white Negroes.
If the white folks "'ant to unload
their holdings in tbs respect, then
the genuine black, w0olly haired Ne.
gro wants to unloa1 his hold ngs,
also. The folks, tho white folks,
chiefly responsible 70 this condition
should agitate and I'd him in so
doing Chief Cook, Of no Pamunkey
Indian Tribe does net want his Ne
groes' living on tn dian reserva-
ticn to come over wiz the Negroes
and these genuine unaduiterated
black and woolly Negroes do not
want either him OF any Of his tribe.
The Negroes want genuine, cast
iron, pure alloy race segregation
provision embraced - the bill now
pending that will afford all Of the
protection to the Bourbon brand o;
Negro black folks as now applies to-
the genuine brand ne white folks
We also would like to find some way
to change, nullify, modify or prove