The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-02
''The Fall OF a
Fair Confederate
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sions upon the technique of love not
to be duplicated in white parlance.
Better Lovers: More Virile
That the Negro is a better lover
than the Caucasian is not without
reason, for with the exception of the
taboo upon the white woman he has
enjoyed more sexual freedom here
than other groups. Add to this the
facts that more rapid destruction
of the unfit and more strenuous
sexual selection have been going on
in the Negro group since his arrival
here three hunderd years ago (every
black person taken out of Africa was
subjected to thorough physical ex-
amination), and there is sound ba-
sis for his reputed virility. Movie
scenes of unrequited and suffering
love which whites take solemnly in
variably throws Negro audience in
to gales of laughter. This is also
due to greater experience in love, I
think; added to the fact that he has
suffered such geat blows that il
seems silly to be bowled over by
little things.
| Harlem Has Race Prejudice
To my great. surprise, found Har-
lem full of race prejudice; never as
crudely manifested as in Dixie, but
there nevertheless. Our marriage
caused nearly as much displeasure
in Harlem as it would have in Texas
Colored women especially resented
it. They have done all of the racial
intermixing up to recently and they
greatly fear the rising competition
of white women. But even the Ne.
gro men thought that man as prom.
inent as X should have been wiser
in his selection of legal mate.
One Negro paper, in mentioning
the rumor of our marriage, didn't see
why X, eff he wanted a wife with
white skin," hadn't picked one OF
the many blondes of remote Negro
ancestry to be found in Harelm
Even the "Intellectuals" thought we
should have had an affair and lei
it go at that. To marry white won.
an was bad enough, but to marry q
Southern white woman was terrible
They seemed to think that must be
either charlatan or fool to will
ingly assume the burdens of preju
dice under which they were born
No one took into consideration thu
fact that X and l might be in low,
with each other.
Father Has Mulatto Mistress;
Brother Has Colored Daughter
| suppose that our marriage vii
eventually be discovered and aired il
the white press. When it happens
will doubtless be disinherited an,
certainly unable ever to return t.
Texas, where racial intermarriage i
crime punishable by five years i'm
prisonment. This does not worry me
| have had enough of Texas and IN,
husband is able to support me as wei
as it is good for anyone to live.
However, dread hurting the PEG
pie who love me. NY family is in
capable of ever understanding m
: marriage as anything but insane an
disgraceful. My mother will be spar
J ed the ordeal. for she recently died
but my sister will never forgive me
) And my father, who has had mul
: alto mistress for forty years, vii
feel that l, who am his Youngest an
J his favorite, have foully betraye
him. Ny brother, who has colore
: daughter by black woman and
, thought none the less of for it, wi
: never speak to me again when h
: hears that |, too, am now in pos
, ton to dilute the black race.
; But | would not take anything 70
the experience of these two year
( They have disciplined me as nothin
, else could. | am stronger huma
: being on account of them. Known
my husband, who has from. the era
: die overcome the greatest Difficult
ties without losing his sense of hu
NOR or impersohal point of view
! has offered me splendid example o
; courage and endurance, has been
: lesson to me in the highest kind o
, ethics.
, Has a Purpose in Life, Now
have been South several time
, in these two years. but the trips onl
5 cemented my desire to cast my 10
henceforth with the Negro. | woul
not for the world return to the ARC
, CANT and useless manner of life t
which | was born. For ] have game
the peace of humility and purpos
/ in life.
My purpose? To break down rae
, prejudice that my children may no
: suffer as have my husband and m
friends in Harlem and the dark fol
of Dixie, and that families like tn
= one in which | was born may ceas
to exist, and that America may even
tually become the free and demo
cratic country of which she now onl
vainly and hypocritically boasts.
. THE END.