The Omaha guide., 1946-08-03
Golfers Tells ofVonishin8 Race
Millions With Negro Blood
Not Accepted as Colored

Scientific Studies disprove the
belief that supposedly white couple
can have coal-black baby, Golfers
article says; thousands of Negroes
pass to white side each year.
Between five and eight million
people of the United States who
have Negro blood are known as
whites, and from 10000 to 10000
Negroes pass over to the white
side each year, so that there Is
some basis for the theory that
the American Negro. like the Ne
groes of England will be ultima
tely absorbed by the whites.
This is revealed by Herbert AS
bury associate editor of Golfers,
on the basis of studies of census
figures and studies by laboratory
scientists. in the current issue Of
the national weekly. The article
also declares that, contrary to
common belief, a man or woman
of little Negro blood cannot have
child of obvious Negro blood.
Eminent American geneticists
and anthropologists agree that
the tale of the white couple and
the black baby has fatal flaw,
the Golfers article declares. 1t
could not possibly happen. If such
child appear, there are three ex-
plantations: 1 a miracle; a
fracture of the Seventh Command
ment; 3 both parties were really
Negroes.
Here is what, barring divine
revocation Of genetic laws, will re
suit from unions of whites, negr-
oes and mixed-bloods" the article
continues:
Il If one of the parents to such
a union is pure white, it is i'm
possible for the child to be darker
of its parents. The chances are
very great that it will be lighter.
80 If both parents have Negro
blood, whether they know it or
not, there may be some accentu-
alton of Negro characteristics in
the child. But this is not likely
and in any case will be slight. If
she parents have been able to
pass for white, the child can pro-
! baby do so too.
"3 If both parents are mulat-
toes, quadroons or octoroons. the
child may be darker than either
! But in all likelihood it will not be
! black. DR.. Ernest A. Hooton (pro-
fessor of anthropology at Harvard
University has stated his opinion
that 'Negroid features seem to be
fttenuated, rather than intensi-
fled, by successive generations OF
inbreeding mixed types. white
features seem to gain on Negroid
| features.
The article declares that Ne
groes emphasize that they do not
pass" because they consider "the
white man a superior being, but
because of the obvious social and
economic advantages to be gained
and contrary to general belief,
Negroes who attempt to pass are
seldom exposed by other Negroes.
Hundreds of prominent Ameri-
can men and women, including
! physicians, scientists and public
administrators, are said to live as
white but to be actually part Ne
gro.
Supporters of the theory of ul-
; innate absorption point out that
from an anthropolobical point of
view, and in the social sense as
well,' the article says, "the Ne
gro has already been absorbed in
Mexico and that the process is
! well under way in Brazil and in
other countries. And it is hist
orical fact that during the 18th
century large numbers were ab-
sorbed by the white population of
England, and that no trace of
them remains.
By an ironic working of the Jim
Crow laws, it is reporter that
many white Negroes are COM
PEELED to pass in the south, at
least temporarily. For ''it is not
at all uncommon for light-skin-
ned Negro to be ordered out of the
Jim Crow section of railroad
coach, bus or trolley car, and COM
PEELED to sit with the whites.
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