The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-31
DR.. Motion Says
The South Still
Has ''Bogey Man


The white South still has its DO
gey man" DR.. Robert r. Motion, Prin-
cipal of Tuskegee Institute, told an
audience here Tuesday.
DR.. Motion was speaker at the "sil-
yer jubilee" celebration OF the found
ing of Utica Normal and Industrial
Institute, which was planted on the
outskirts of the delta by William H.
Holtzclaw, disciple of the late Book
er T. Washington.
The white South is afraid of the
Negro. some unreal relation which
is described as social equality, or in.
termarriage.
"lf the white race is not fair. and
just, and industrious. God will take
away its power" DR.. Motion empha-
sized, land give II TO n race that
knows how to be. Maybe that race
will be the Negro race for the rule
of the world does not depend on
color or creed"
But 1t was not in his judicial con-
sideration of the relative and COM
mon position of the two races here
In the South that DR.. Motion was
most striking and that the hearts
and minds Of both colored and white
were touched most. That interest
and tenseness came when he chose
to deal simply with the white mans
fear of the Negro. As Motion de-
scribed it, 1t was not fear of the
Negros ability, but fear based up
on the white mans idea of social
equality. which to him seems inter-
marriage OF the races.
whites Fear
"The white man wants to keep his
blood pure, and that is all right with
me because I'm pure myself" declar-
ed DR.. Motion. but he makes mis-
| take when he thinks the Negro
wants to mix up with him. There's
been a good deal of mixing in the
South already. and 1t has not been
! the fault of the Negro.
white men can never get to un-
| derstand how Negroes feel about
mixing with them because of the
| delicaey involved in the explanation.
| Most Negroes feel that to tell the
white man that they don't want to
intermarry with his women would
sound like an admission of Inferior
! ity In the white mans ears. SO the
Negro goes along permitting the
white man to think Just as he pleas
es, but carrying in his heart and
mind just as pronounced a feeling
against intermixture as the white
man. If this fear in the white man
could be destroyed so that the
whites and the blacks could work
together and serve each other, there
would be the dawn of new day.
i "Nigger," "Darkey"
Signs of progress in good race re-
lations were also noted by DR.. Mo-
ton while he was expressing to the
whites present the Negroes dislike
of being called niger" and "dar-
ky"
/ darky," he pointed out. ''But
| do not mind being called a Negro,
colored man or a black man, be-
cause I'm proud of my race, as
proud of my race as you are of
yours, and 1 want all these young
people to 60 into the world full of
pride for the past and the future
of their races"
Get Diplomas
Diplomas were presented to those
boys and girls graduated from the
academic department and certificates
to those who finished trades by
Principal Holt2claw. Miss Linnie
Bronze was this years valedictorian.
On Monday night. she won first prize
in an oratorical contest sponsored by
John l.. Webb, Hot Springs, Ark,
in a remarkable oration on the
growth of the American Constitu-
tion.