The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-01-10

Wyoming. Ohio Dec. 10. 1896
Dear Tom:
i was just q little surprised Ia
see and receive such a prompt reply
to my, YOU might say discourse on
the Kelly Miller article and the Negro
situation in general. The thing TINT
wanted To get home to you boys
was, that this racial feeling and pSti
jealousy was all" the bunk" and gets
yOu no where.
Ion may wash that black face of
yours forty times daily and use the
most expensive and highly scented
ladies face powder each time you and
you will still Ike a Negro and White
man can use Mashons shoe blacken
ing forty times a day and he will still
be White man.
The thing that puzzles me Is, why
do the Negroes do IL. 1t is no dis
grace to be IL Negro. Negroes are a
race of people and they should b.
just as proud and loyal to their race
as the Italian. tho Rushian, the Ger
man or any other race, 80 why shS;lld
they resent being called Negro? !
am frank to say to you that this is
the one thing about the Negro that
have never been hble to fathem. No
doubt they have done. dlsgraGfpl
things, so have the White race and all
other races but they did not do it as
"A whole; I would he very much dis
tressed If l thought for one moment
that the great judge and ruler of all
things, was goin to hold me respon-
siblS for the things that have been
done and the many errors committed
by the white race
You know Tom. Negroes are great
mimic< both tho women and the men,
yon can see daily, examples Of it,
some Negro Women are daily trying
10 copy some white woman or some
Nsgro man is trying to copy some
white man; this they should do a.
the white race is the older from a
Civilization standpOint and therefore
the superior race. his you know is
tru" whether you want TO acknow-
ledge II In words or not, you do ack
nowledge it to the world when You
copy after tht.n. an right here lies th,'
dnnger 10 the Negro race; they should
find out who and what tire White
man or woman is that they are copy
ing for we have bad one a great many
too many that are II bad example Cor
any one To copy. You and have both
seen lots of Negroes that are nue.,
more decent and much more pleasant
ia talk too and pass u few leisure
hours with than u lot Of white men.
can name some right in your lDcal-
lily and son can you and 7 haze no
doubt that If we mentioned names TO
some of Your younger people they
would 10 shocked
You boys used IN get little milf
fed and squirm little when I wonli
mention these things in our talk, q.
bout your race, for the reason TINT
you thought that | considered tba
white man lowering himself by aeso.
eating with this ar that Negro. this
was not the case all lifetime for the
simple reason that In n great MANY
instances the Negro was lowering his
standards by asSociating with the
kind Of white man that hc was nsso
cioting with if you get what mean
! Yon and ] have both seen Negroes
that came up from the south Vir.
ginin. mostly whose principlr wa.
good and his manners rs polished ~
any man and could take him and
throw him among any class o, Ne.
grOeS, good or bad and he would
come ont with character and princi
pie untarnlshcd why? for the simple
reason that some respectable Whit