The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-01-03

Tho article in QeS,ion, to may mind
is misleading and in n great many in
stances untrue.
Not knowinf Kelly Miller personal
ly, would judge that he Is n north
ern raised Negro or II southern Negro
who has been placed in some school
Or college whers the finer points. of
priniples are not taught. This to my
mind Is bad, both for the colored and
the white.
What ! mean Is, that young white
boys are placed In schools antagOnis-
tic to the Negro and the tcahings they
get from such institutions are bad
for ths Negro and worse for the
whites for the simple reason that
they become warped and biased in
their views which makes them unfit
for fair and impartial judgement Of
any issue. The same is true Of the
Negro schools and places of learning
WY ~ 'ooAH INV u 8iVot Va
these schools teach nothing hut race
prejudice and ! will 20 almost as far
as to say hatred for the race white
Or black as the case may be; this Is
wrong. They should be given q bust
ness education, a medical S1lucation.
a teachers education or any other
kind Of an education that will place
him in n position whereby he can In
Of some benefit to his country, his
family, his race and last but by no
means least his fellow man, hut this
mode Of teaching seems to have gone
out Of style. Well clothes 60 out Of
style and some times stay eut for:
great lengths Of time bot after. -,
while some one wants a little more
comfort here and a little mora there,
and the first thing you know you
are back into your old style comfor..
table suit and then tho younger gen.
Grafton think they have created
new style. but being our age you and
l know that it is no new style at all
jst the old fashiontd comfortable suit
that you and / saw every day forty
years ago; so 40 my way of thinking,
the schools, both white and cOlored,
will have to gcti back to the old style
of teaching: reading, writing. arith.
mctic and such Of those that ara com
potent, and have the desire, and the
will and courage to work for them.
make Doctors. Lawyers. Teachers,
Engineers, Mechanical Engineers or
any other honest and useful career if
the material is there for the making
but most importans Of all is find out
if the material is there before throw
ink away your time and energy try
ing to buil6 something that you have
not tho material with which to build,
am no Automobile manufacturer.
know nothing about the building OF
one, but ] will make you q, good wag-
or that none of THE successful Auto
mobile 3Ihnufactors even start to
build a machine withot first finding
out IL he has the kind Of material
that he wants to build. If the schools
both white andblack. would get down
and work on this principle they could
for get about race prejudiccs and
things rs they would, in short so
cial equality spell binders.
There is no hatred Of the black
man In the hearts Of White Pcopla
just the contrary. Wher Gin the
world would the COlOred race get
more help and encouragement than
they get right in your own locality.
] will venture to say that 90 pcrcen,
Of the successful colored men and
women in your locality had the back
ing AMI help ~ some white person. =,
Am ] wrong in making this state
mpnt? You answer the question you
live there an dShould know, intact
Know that YOU do know.
As to the social standing of the
,colorcd race. that is absolutely up to
you honest and God fearing Negroes.
but think 7 can give You q sample
Of soma Of tho things you will stamp
out and overcome. Tn 1907 or one
~ your race Won tho worlds cham
rIcnhsip in boxing contest his
name was on the front page Of All
orr news papers. What did he 10
to my way Of thinking he showed no
"t 10 W. W.