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other human beings.
For Intermarriage

| Otner human beings.
For Intermarriage
Turning to the question of in
termarriage. Editor Dunjee said .
Il want every lady in this audi
ence who loves her virtue to
hear me now want you to
be patient with my explanation
when l say that every law that
prevents men of one race marry
ing into the other should be torn
from our statute books.
My mothers father was
white man. My mother was
born out of wedlock. want
TO know from you who have just
lifted your knees from prayer.
whether 1t would not have been
finer thing. a more decent
and cleaner thing. and far more
civilizing in its form had my old
gray haired mother. who lived
Christian life all of her days.
been born in wedlock.
Bishops Father White
Just few days ago" con
tinued the speaker, down in
the city of Jackson, Tenn, the
entire city, both black and
white alike, joined hands to do
honor to the 99th anniversary of
a venerable black citizen of the
community | refer to Isaac Lane
bishop of the Colored Episcopal
Church.
Il am sure | will surprise you
when | say that Bishop Isaac
Lane is the illegitimate black
son of a white father. Two 9th
err brothers of Bishop Lane,
whose mother was white, died
and filled drunkards' graves. |
want to ask you Christian moth
ers within the sound of my voice
whether you believe this fine old
man, who today is rounding out
a century in clean living. who
has set a high standard in obey
ing the laws OF God and man.
should not have had the right
TO legitimate birth. Will your
conscience permit YOU to say no?
Thinking of Honor
when my people say they be-
lieve in intermarriage, they are
making a direct attack upon just
such situations as this. We are
thinking about the honor, the
chastity and the virtue of black
mothers.
Whenever. under a form of
government, you fix it so the
men of one race can make ad-
vances toward the women OF an
other race without responsibility.
that is the day that the women
SO approached become the help
less prey of those who so APP
proach them" continued Dunjee.
of one of you men in this
audience approach one of the
ladies who sit before me, under
certain conditions you are re-
quired to give that woman your
name. and under certain other
more grave conditions you are
required to give her child your
Eame.
out Upon the Desert
"Anti-marriage laws cast Ne
gro women out upon the desert
af Ap,.rioop Iifo ,tbaro man nf
other races can approach them
without assuming the serious OBJ
legations they must assume when
they approach white women.
when | say | want anti-mar-
riage laws torn from the statute
books, | take this position be-
cause | want the same constitu-
tional guarantees which surround
red women, yellow women and
white women here in America
to surround also our black wo-
men.
understanding Negroes on
this question will show that we
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do not seek the tearing down of
these legal barriers in order that
Negro men can marry white wo-
men"
Pastor Agrees
AT the conclusion of the ad-
dress. the Rev George A. Regan.
white, pastor of the church. in
a short talk, endorsed what Edi-
tor Duniee had said. and laid
emphasis upon the discussion of
inter-marriage.
Members Of the church crowd
ed the platform and shook the
hand of the editor and expressed
their desire that he return again
in another lecture.