| Show u u c rB BOOKER K RT T WASHINGTON w SH ml Views of ot tho the Link tho Black rend find 5 White Man S i W Hooker Washington when passing through Chicago some Bomo months ago aHO talked In an nil animated way for nn an hour bOur I or moro more to a representative of or the Roc Rea about bout the tho subject that isnow Is Isnow Isi i now exercising tho the minds minda of ot some Bome ot of oCth the th extremists In tho the South tho social relations between en tho the white man and anti the tho negro It H Is IB safe sate to say that It If these thero men could meet and antI talk with i once such na ns hns has fallen rallen to tho the lot of or very verr few tew among us You 1011 want me to put my linger on onlie tho lie great grent vital point In nil all this thin contro contra controversy very versy verl Very well It Is this ho said saido Wo o must B see lice ce to It that we wo tench the tho negro to make himself n part of or the tho community where ho Ito lives hives anti and that In Ineve over eve straightforward a honorable man manner manner ner he lie makes friends with Ith tho the white whiteman whiteman whiteman man who Is h his door neighbor But Dut I nAked asked him do not the AAA tUl LAA should like other race be he Judged by Its best beet types rather than by its worst Hut But would It bo be fair to Judge even ev n nb by b that standard No he answered It would 1 not Judgment must not bo bu passed upon the tho therace therace race roce too noon soon For more than twenty years after we eve became a n 1 tree free people there was seas uncertain groping In tho wil wll wilderness Tho The policy polley of or both North and South as n well au us n that of ot the central government was both halting and un uncertain uncertain certain The Tho problem was wan without a 1 parallel In tho the history of ut tho No path hall had been beell hewn through the wil wll wilderness wilderness which anyone felt f lt absolutely r safe Into In following It was wnM to tn bo be antici antiel anticipated paled In tho Hr t generation nl nt least that tho the tendency t among n 1 largo num number number ber her would be bo to seek fleck the th shadow In Instead Instead stead stend of at the substance to grasp alter after the tho mere signs of or the highest civilization lion tion Instead of the reality rea lit j to bo he lea Into the temptation of ot believing that they could secure In Inn a few tow years that which It has hall taken other races thousands thousands ands of ot years rears to attain MJ went on I have seen them In their homes on their farms farm In the shop In Inthe Inthe Inthe the factory In tho the mines in their heir stores In la the churches In the Jails In Inthe Inthe the penitentiary and I have hl talked with the white people who wore were onto on co their masters master and now their neighbors After Arter this Inspection combined with my experience and observation In tho ho heart of oC the black belt of ot the South covering n a period of or nineteen years year firl I 1 Iho havo ho no hesitation II In ht asserting n that there I is constant ogress that Is tangible visible Anyone who has hns had daily trail studying my race nt at first hand cannot fall to Gain the tho Impression tint that there thero pro or Indisputable evidenced that the race IH Is settling down to n a hard ear earnest earnest nr nest common sense sene view Iel of or lib that It Il Itt IH is fast tast 1 learning t Ing that n a race raco 1111 I II a nn an In Individual must lU t pay for wo elry rr thins tint that Ih It gets the price of ot beginning at the bottom of or the social scale and working up gradually naturally to the th highest t civilization Tho Impressions that the list first years of f freedom IW the In up Let Iet us Ig teach the tho negro youth that any Individual or lr race that cherishes hell race nice hatred and practices cruelty cruelly IB Is crushing and 1 narrow narrowing Ins the highest aspirations of the human souk Sumo Some may call this cowardice Ho tie HoIt BeIt It no lIO but It Is tho the Wild of at cowardice that the Christ taught and practiced and IH Is the Wild kind of or cowardice that will win uin our nur cause CIlUS What WIt then do du we e glean ns nil to our Immediate duty uly and all what la Is the safe art wise Wl policy for tor the future There cnn can bt be but one answer On on oh right righton on m with the work of at education of at the tho head hand and heart In every VCr corner of ot the South Houth My Iy race needs the tho help anti and sympathy sym sympathy pathy path of lit the llie American people now t IlK as ashover n hover never before t I hope hOlle and believe boll eVe tho the black man will not look to the white whiteman whiteman man Inan In Chicago Record |
