Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-11-08
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What Was Expected!
By JOE SIMPSON

o. present consloeraoe discussion in Richmond aneht
the address recently delivered here by Dr. Kooet u No.
horor segregated audience of whites and NegroeS
roes mere are bitterly disappointed because the speaker
nounce the white people IN the West Terms m h dsap
hnd tnat Iie
t is evidenced by those people who by their cultura a
ona0es and educational environments should know OeC1e
one writer said recently the Negro is reluctant TO FACE ae
I to this we viii attempt place before the reader
few cold acts Wheeler Negro will proht by them we can
not and Will not attempt Nevertheless mere goeS Ia
& we as race do not think fully sixty cent OF us De
inc incapable hard thinking were we not we "o
indignant disguised surprised at the thngs sau Wy -
Motion or any other Negro like position we dare say at
those NEGROES who are raising the greatest howl were III
position they would have been afraid to nave SAD s S ~
od We have all the laws to back up our conenIo
Who made Motion leader? The white man. II ne mao "aco
for the Negro to make leader he would still De at
ON the farm Why? Because the Negro Will not iohow any
nov will ne consider him leader until he first has the stamp Oh
approy al of the white the day ana hour at nc
TINS stamp of approval automatically ceases TO De Negro M
or he Soon hoed IN some posaon the white IN which
he forced by virtue his position and standing to look TO tue
White man Tor his daily bread Do you the white man 10
en man in his house that knows taking the furniture
from his paror giving to you He will however remain sat
sized with his services and his acts of charity long
he hands out you than the etoVers ana the CRUMBS
from table king would be more than fool II ne retained as
his aide whom he knew undermining his Kingdom Sell
preservation the first law of nature he who dsregardS 1t
fool
In the second place we expect too the white and
Place upon him much of the blame for our ills Tor many OF
which we alone are to be responsible We concede the fact
that white han former days. not TIE distant past robbed
our orefahe of almost right known to man. they were
robbed their honor and not granted personal
privacy justice the Supreme Court went far to rule
that "A rights thaC the white man was Douhu
respect This condition does not obtain today the Negro to
certain extent free he is paid annually in
exceeding billion dollars ne is at liberty to spend where
he peaSeS spends most of this
with the white while the merchants and others of his
fail for of his trade Can blame the white for
this Emphatca The white man holds no gun in our backs
forcing patrone his crow theatres his backdoor
tauran his row shoe and dry goods stores other of
his mcrow enterprises but patronze Them blame
the white for accepting money nSiStence
shat he for powerthe that the world
What nation of individual for that matter would
refuse power?
We expect white man to set up anv kind of
ton abolition of those policies which the average white man
considers vital to the continued and purity the white
race lie feels that accepting equals he would eapordze
the future OF his own by opening which we
would ultimately enter and take from him of those things
winch ne holds near and dear to him. These bodies good will
The average Negro will not will be- prone to ac
cept the Negro therefore, interested his own destnv he
VIII not sit idle and expect the white to work out for him
ne Will take an interest in, and work out his destiny
Real leaders born not made and an ndisputabe fact
ha the Negro brought he abyss of eharpv
IN Whch IT. ndS ITSELF it will inevitably be by some radical
Negro leader who may in attempting h MT his
some one at hand who has been inspired his shirt to fake hold
OF the falling banner and through victory Negroes like
W Jews OF ola look for great parsonage to come in and
Seo ana denver them We invariably LOOKING t the coleo
G OUT coege 40 not make leaders, they only reneries where
e latent qualities of the products which come under bo IN
nence are brought out in bold relief college education ts
morning INTO Individual only brings out that which I .rd
Wnln REblEMBER The white man in the south will noo- nj
or the repeal OF the segregation im-crow laws end b.
dHNkS so is UTTERLY VOID OF REASON or be hoe boon
SADLY MIS-INFORMED - lie has oeeh
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