The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-13
Head Of Women's Clubs
Tells What Negros Want
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NAhuSu lIOH rage i
snare OF THIS necessary and impor-
tant function of citizenship duty"
special attention was paid by Mrs
bethune to the school situation which
obtains particularly in the South as
she set rth that /" the Negro can
not understand the justice in spend.
ing eight dollars on each white child
f 5gr every dollar spent on his own.
ne cannot understand the Justice in
giving the principal of white school
a salary of three or four thousand
dollars while the Negro in the same
school system receives eight or fen
hundred dollars. He cannot under
stand the justice of giving the white
teacher monthly salary of two hun-
dred dollars, while the colored teach.
er congratulates herself upon receiv-
ing sixty; and just why the school
building for whites cost eight or ten
times as much as that for Negroes. !"
IF this child" continued Mrs. Be-
thune, must adjust himself to the
white mans civilization, fit himself
INTO the white mans industrial
scheme, be measured by the white
mans standards of intelligence and
answer to the white mans law he
wants for his child an equal measure
with the white mans child in thor
oughness of preparation"
All Negroes are not the Same
Another time-worn opinion of
whites especially in the South was
attacked when Mrs. Bethune URGED
he white citizens to study the Ne
gro life and history; to learn of their
attainments, their aspirations and
ldeallsm pointing out if this was done
they would find that all Negroes are
not shiftless. unreliable, and law as
so many white people believe,
Concerning the Negroes desire TO
make an appreciable contribution to
the growth of better America and
a better world" Mrs. Bethune said
IF it takes sacrifice, he wants to
give until it hurts. He is willing to
suffer the aches and darts of grow
ing pains to change from the thing
ne is unto the thing he ought to be.
II it takes finer home life, he wants
but the opportunity in industry and
education to make his home appear
ence and atmosphere what IL ought to
be. If it takes a finer soldiery, he
wants merely better opportunity to
serve in the army and navy without
embarrassment, without humiliation,
without unfair repression and just as
he has done in every past war of the
Nations history, so again will he
make the supreme sacrifice to keep
old Glory floating symbol of JUS
tice and democracy to the oppressed
world
IF it takes finer citizenship, he
simply wants to be taught, not mere
~ by the white mans precept, but by
the white mans example, of what the
white man conceives superlative cit
izenship to mean, and then he wants
the white man to urge upon his own
son and neighbor to practice that cit
lzenship. If it takes a finer religion.
he is willing to tarry as long as the
most devout at the feet of the lowly
Nazarene until he has thoroughly in
corporated the spirit of humility and
purity and service and love, until he
Is willing to put into operation among
all men, all races, all nations active
ly and without reservation or uualifi-
cation a full free-hearted practice Of
the golden rule"
IF these wants can be supplied,
here will be not only an immeasur-
ably better Negro but there will be
an UNNECESSARILY better America, be-
cause this kind Of Negro is in IT,"