The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-21
The Racial Question

The Racial Question
Add to the troubles Of congress .
fight over the racial question. It be-
gan when Oscar De Priest. Negro
representative from Chicago, pro-
tested discrimination against his Of
flee help by the management Of the
house restaurant.
After that had gone on for : while,
the sign on the place was changed
from public" to TOR members only"
although the trade was conspicuously
not limited to the house membership.
A Negro waiter was discharged for
serving another Negro. despite the
new sign, and then 80 Negro students
staged demonstration few days
later, attempting to enter the place
during the noon hour and being
driven away by police.
There may be further repercussions
in these new developments In con-
tinuing fight over one Of Americas
Oldest questions. Negros constitute
an important voting influence In
many regions and their concentrated
enmity might be. damaging to many
congressman.
Meanwhile, 1t IS interesting to note
the reasons behind these racial quar-
rels, none Of which would ever occur
II both whites and blacks had q sense
Of proportion and proper racial pride.
The white man has no ingrained
antipathy to the Negro.
Even the southerner, who u believed
In the north to despise them. likes to
have them around - servants.
The trouble comes when the Negro
nspires to social equality. In the
north, most persons ignore whatever
tendency Negroes may have to mingls
with white persons, but In the south
it meets with fierce resistance.
At the bottom OF this situation Is
the fear Of intermarrtage between
whites and blacks and the creation Of
q social condition which would be
generally intolerable.
This Is fully justified On sociological
grounds, although It Is worthy Of note
that the prohibitions against inter-
marriage have not prevented the
illicit mingling Of the blood strains In
the south. There has to b some ex-
PLANTATION for Negroes with yellow
skins.
The American Negro, particularly
In the north and In the cities on the
northern edge OF the Msson-Dixon
line, has long protested against Jim
Crowism" as . thing which he feels
tends to den,ean him. This simply
means the segregation Of Negroes
from whites In street cars, schools.
and on public occasions. In many
ways there Is sound justification for
the practice, but this has not made
It any the less CALLING for the Negro
race.
The trouble. when racial issues
arise. seems frequently to lie with
both the whites and blacks. The
whites often are insensible to the fact
that the Negro Is . human being and
appreciates courteous treatment.
The Negroes ambition Is not gen.
orally directed toward the common
good. As long as he wants to mingle
with white people on terms Of social
equality and as long as intermarriage
with whites continues to be Q CON.
mon Negroid ambition. there will be
trouble Of . much more serious ma
ture than has occurred ct Washing
ton.
When the Negro learns to take
pride IN his race and It's achieve
naents, to devote hts interest and In.
tellioence to the task Of upbuildinl
his own race and it, influence. ther
win be have found his proper place
IN society.
Until that tine comes. the natiou
probably viii have e put up With
such situations - that which has d.
veloped ut Warrington and With much
worse demonstrations Of racial IN
tolerance which occur from time &
time.
Those greedy slave traders wh6
first introduced tho Negro % Ameriol
g . source Of cheap laboe certainly
started something.