The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-31
Blease Story OF
Little Black Baby

"There was q boy In South Caro-
lima whom | knew from his boyhood
quite well. He rolled the mail in
a town there from the depot to the
post office in n cart, away back,
years before they had automobiles.
He was as white. so far as color Of
skin was concerned, as any man in
this building.
"He came up here to Washington,
rot an appointment through the man
who was then Postmaster, a Repub-
lican from the North, went to work
in one of the departments, and met
a girl in the department whose father
was 4 very splendid white man, n
man Of standing and Influence in the
communitv. He came from one of
the far Western States. This boy
AMI this girl married. .
About ii or Is months after
they had been married this girl gave
birth to a child. The father was
walking up and down with the hus-
band on the outside, anxiously watt
ing, as / suppose parents generally
are. The boy walked around into his
room. About that time the doctor
opened the door. The girls father
said
Doctor, how is everything-all
right?'
"'rhe doctor looked down, and he
said, No
"The father said, My God! 1t is
dead%
"The doctor said. No; worse than
that
"The father said, What in the
h could be worse?
"He said. The baby is a nigger.'
"That happened in Washington
City. The father rushed back into
the room and saw the little blaeg
baby lying by the side of its white
mother. He dashed out and got this
boy and dragged him into the room
and demanded to know what that
meant, and demanded from the girl
"The reply was, which was the
truth, that the boy was the son of Q
Negro woman by a white doctor
When this child was brought into the
world it reverted to type, as any
physician viii tell you it will do.
THAT man took that boy and that
daughter and sent them away out
to his home, out yonder. So far a,
I know, they are there yet. That
boy was born and reared in the
county of Newberry, where wa!
born and reared. | knew his father
| knew his mother, and | know tha
| the census is correct; and / once
more warn you white people who are
| pleading for inter-marriage, to bt
careful that you do not have in you
cradles at home little black baby
NEW YORK. = (By Palestin,
Wells. $50 our friend Cole Bleast
is on the warpath again. Judgini
from what he says, one cannot doub
that he certainly is 'nigger hater'
| (forgive me for using the expires
| sionl. However, ! wonder what
psychoanalyst would have to sa!
about his feelings toward the Negro
You know | rather fancy that h
would make some interesting discoy
cries. For example, think he Nigh
bring out the point that brothe
Blease's 'negrophobia' is due entire
ly to a complex. Let us say, TO
example, that his conscious mind i
unable to accept subconscious love
a. yearning to associate with blacl
folk. As result of such a menta
state we have a conflict that is ex
pressed in his seething hatred TO
Negroes.
How the white folk must hav
shuddered at the terrible picture h
painted, showing the results of treat
ing the Negro as human being in
stead of a circus freak But afte
all how groundless are their fears
Poor Blease will need the breath h
wasted. His picture would have tn
world believe that we-think of i
we Negroes would visit such horror
upon our beloved white brethren q
Southern mobs are in the habit Q
visiting upon such unfortunate black
and a few whites as fall into the
bloodthirsty clutches. How can b
have failed to overlook the fact ths
among other things mob violence
one of the many things in this cour
try reserved for whites only?
Black Baby
The little story about the colore
fellow who married the white gi
was rather amusing to say the leas
The poor little black baby was r
version to type. ] wonder If M
Blease knows any more like tina
Somehow | have sneaking suspicio
that there must have been blacl
berry ON the mothers family TIRE
also, for that youngster to have bee
black. Or probably our friend
suffering from color blindness,
malady that is reaching alarmir
proportions in the South. The baby
grandfather was a victim of tn
malady. Thousands of white men, il
I cluding the oneseto whom | owe N
very fair maternal relatives, eviden