The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
Good Neighbors
BY s. T. McCants

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with us. The time of year when
most places of business take stock
of the merchandise sold and the
same on hand. Well, 1 have been
taking stock of the justice, and
the injustices accorded the Negro
race in America. hope you ex-
anime my reports carefully, and
inform me If I have made any
mistakes. / find first cf all that
our coming to America was
against our will, and 1 have been
made to wonder if our ancestors
had the intuition at that time, as
to what would happen to them,
down the years to come.
I wonder If they at that time,
could see hundreds of years of
slavery ahead? If they could see
the women of the African race
overpowered, raped and their Off
spring sold into slavery by their
white masters? Today the Negro
race can boast of having more
colors, than any other race on
earth. We are not to blame, as
we all come here one color, black
Yet, the great so-called Christian
civilization, without Christ, that
we found on our arrival, at once
placed us in slavery, and from
then to now, June 1910, the So
called Christian civilization of
America, has kept us in servit-
ude, submission, and a slavery
worse than death. I have exper-
fenced so years of it in different
parts of the u. s. A.. and find 1t
the same all over. Simply differ
ence in administering the torture.
have lived in Seattle for the
past 81 years. More than 25 years
of that time have been devoted to
my own place of business, which
was chiefly patronized by the
white race, who encouraged and
cheered me on, so long as I gave
better and cheaper service than
they could obtain elsewhere; and
after all these years in the bust
ness world in Seattle, my home,
1 must give better service, and
cheaper service, or starve. There
are ten thousand places of bust
ness in Seattle owned by so-called
Christian Americans that will tell
the Negro when service is asked of
them. 1--WE are sorry, but our help
refuses to serve you, or that our
patrons won't stand for Negroes
being served here" I have had
that told me so many times, and
in so many ways, that I have been
made to wonder if the Africans
Christianity isn't more God-like
than what we have here in Amer
lea. I am speaking from personal
experiences, not what I read in a
book, or some heresay-these are
actual facts today.
have made it a deep concern of
mine to make rounds to the differ
ent places of business owned by
other races, and after 81 years I
am sorry to report, that I find no
improvements. At hotels, and
rooming houses, they tell you they
haven't got a vacancy, or they
may tell you in plain words, 1--WE
don't cater to Negroes" In res
taurants and cafes they give you a
look Of wonder, and let you sit I'M
til everyone else in the place is
served, and then they may say to
you, my help won't serve you,"
then smile at you sweetly, after
telling you the d....... lie. We
may truthfully say that this is
far from loving your neighbor as
yourself. After hearing all the
Radio Broadcasts Sunday, concern
ing the horrors of the war in
Europe, Gods name was mentioned
only when they were lost for words
in their routine speeches. Love,
and love alone, for our brothers