The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07

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basis of his history and social
status. The tearing-away from the
African soil and the consequent COM
plete loss of the old standards of
life, which were replaced by the de-
tendency of slavery and by all it
entailed, followed by a period of dis
organization and by severe econ
omic struggle against heavy odds,
are sufficient to explain the infer
iority of the status of the race, with
out falling back upon the theory of
hereditary inferiority." Up. 272.)
A. That evolution theory which
holds that Negroes are closest to
the apes. AS proved by Golden
weiser, LOWE, Boas, and others,
there are no distinctions to be made
on this score. The pot may not call
the kettle black. There are as many
ape like characteristics among
whites as among Negroes. Straight
hair is more like the hair of the apes
than kinky hair. Even the thick lips
of Negroes which were held to be
a distinctly animal feature, are seen
to be a distinctly human feature.
Such characteristics as the length
of the forearm, in which the Negro
more closely resembles our common
ape-like ancestors, than the eau
casian, are set off by these other
characteristics.
5. Intelligence tests. The nature
and method of these tests prove
most of them to be absolutely worth
less. But even on the basis of these
tests conclusions are posted which
give no warrant whatever for innate
inferiority but prove on the contrary
that the social opportunity and en-
vironment is responsible for the
present development of the races.
For instance, the army tests showed
that Northern Negroes had higher
intelligence quotient than Southern
Negroes and also than Southern
whites.
6. Inherent antagonism between
races" The late President Harding
uttered the imperialist dictum on
this point at Birmingham, Alabama,
when he said: 'There are .funda-
mental, unacceptable, eternal differ
ences between the races which will
make it impossible for them to live
together upon terms of social equal
ity." So thought Lincoln, the much
heralded friend of the Negroes. So
think most whites in America, so
think even a large and growing
number of Negroes.
But such antagonism as exists be-
tween the races can definitely be
proved to be the result of training
and social education. 1t is not in
born. Children are unusually free
from this prejudice. They play with
each other wholly oblivious of this
climate" antagonism until it is i'm
pressed upon their minds by preju-
diced elders. Moreover, whites enter
into the most intimate relationships
with Negroes, even the most rabid
Negro-haters, the Southern slave
holding Bourbons. Negro women
suckle white babies at their breasts
and the millions of mullatoes in
these United States are testimony to
the fact of sex relationships between
white and black. But it is to be
noted, that less intimate relation
ship will be objected to if it places
the Negro on a plane Of social equal
ity. The black nanny may nurse
the white child but she may not sit
in the parlor. AS a black coachman
or chauffeur the Negro may sit be-
side whites but not as fellow
passenger. These instances may be
multiplied but they suffice to show
that it is not intimate relationship
per Sc that is objected to but equal
social status. The attitude is the