St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-11
Sees Interracial Relations
Suffering Because of En-
phasis on Sex, Propaganda
By Dan Gardner

One big stumbling block in the
path of greater interracial under
standing is the mistaken ideas some
Negroes have about social relation
ships between Negroes and whites.
Subtle propaganda by both whites
and blacks, accumulative over the
centuries, has reduced normal con-
tact between Negroes and whites
to low and primitive level in the
eyes of the general public. And that
is a main reason why the general
public, including Negroes, looks
with suspicion at friendly relations
between whites and blacks and why
the sight of Negro woman walk
ing with a white man, or a Negro
man walking with a white woman
is so fraught with danger in so far
as public reaction is concerned.
The interracial harmonies that
have been achieved over the last
twenty years have come about be-
cause those seeking that goal have
been cold to the reaction of the
general public and because they
have persisted in demonstrating
liberalism on the race question in
spite of sometimes violent, even
bloody opposition.
White Men Fear Attraction
of Sexes
Because of certain biological diff
ferences between Negro and whites,
men of the white race have built
a monstrous bugaboo about Negro
men, knowing only too we'll the at
traction that exists between the
black male and the white female.
Toward this end, whole systems,
physical and political, and surely
social, have been erected by the
white man to overcome what he
secretly knows is a natural weak
ness among his females and what
he publicly blames on the Negro,
whom he terms "animal-like" and
"promiscuous."
Thus far, such preventive stems
have failed. Lynchings and burn
ings, prison cells, public castiga-
ton, and the most carefully thought
out methods of segregation have
proved inadequate as the white
man attempts to protect his credo
of "white supremacy"
Issue of "BIack NatiOnalism"
Whether the Negro should imi-
tate the white man and keep his
racial stock as purely Negroid as
he can is the question which in an
implied manner has posed a ready
problem for years to those who are
in positions to influence Negro
thought and Negro action. It is
generally admitted that the tend
ency among the Negro masses is to
cleave together on grounds of
black nationalism; grounds upon
which pride in black skins, black
enterprise, black culture and black
attainment can be generated.
Such Negro leaders as Richard
T. Greener, and Marcus Garvey
have been the spearheads of abor-
tive attempts at the establishment
of NEGRO kingdoms" and ere
publics" in Africa and elsewhere.
A movement was begun several
years ago in Chicago to form what
was called the "Forty-ninth State"
to be peopled exclusively with Ne
groes. Many all-Negro towns and
communities have been formed
throughout certain sections of the
country.
Dangerous mountebanks have
started such movements as the
Moorish Scientists" the "Ethiop-
ian Peace Movement" and others,
all toward the end of capitalizing
on the inherent desire of the rest
less black masses for some spiritual
anchor of hope upon which to moor
their innate longings, their hunger
for actual status in the eyes of the
world.
The Work of the AmalgamatiOnists
The Negro has also those who at
one time were openly accused of
attempting to destroy the race by