Show THE PAST AND THE FUTURE OF THEAMER THE AMERICAN 1 CAN NEGRO 1 by D W cuu culp A mr 31 31 al M D n tup THE first thought suggested to my mind by prof Bough tons article is that the white people of this country we are woefully ignorant of the true intellectual status stains of the negro the southern Sout herrL people boast that they we are thoroughly acquainted quain ted teI with the negro but they are greatly mista mistaken en their knowledge in this direction does not extend beyond the ignorant negroes in their employ they know mow absolutely nothing of the educated negroes of this country with whom they do not come in contact very few southern white people know that we have such scholarly men as greener crummell langston bly den T mccants steward bishops fanner and lee bowens coppin Pt beeves eeves F J grimke and crogman who do not suffer by comparison ison with the foremost scholars of 0 f the nation that we have thousands of young men who graduated from first class colleges that we have not a few men who graduated from the same colleges from which the greatest men of the nation graduated that we have women whose lite literary and musical attainments are an equal to those thase poss eted emed by the most cultured cul turea white women of VAs this country that we have over a hun arl sy not he be differed differentiated fawd from chose those of white authors by the most critical mind dud v that we e have three hundred edito editors rs who compare favorably favora bly with their white peers in journalism nor noi do the southern whites put themselves to much trouble to gam gain information concerning the intellectual status of the negro they will not visit our schools and the other places aacen where they could get some idea of the intellectuality of the negro there are forty four schools in this city jacksonville florida El orida for the higher training of the negro and 1 I venture the assertion that there are not a half dozen Sout southern herid white people in jacksonville who have ever visited these schools there is atlanta georgia with her atlanta and clark guiver shies her morris moriis brown imd and jer her seminaries imd and her gammon gamman school of Theolo theology gr and there is nashville ann finnessee essee with her ake roger roar williams and central tennen ee with their hundreds of jn brainy y students arid and yet except excepting ilg the few w white men who have visited 1 these hese choals as detectives t sore children attended them not nota a dozen salute pe persons so m in the two places hate all nor will t As A s afif t these n gr literature from w iti lie dr i 1107 aa idea of w ja if ae tw ss agys sg ys wo 1 i wr a ture 2 a the encounter A ia h av 9 w h beatin hairis 19 a I 1 ah i g a ik SO V sabo 0 TV 51 amy j g W 3 tog 7 ap of the negro were greatly changed by visiting negro schools and coming in contact with educated negroes the following is what he said the other day in in a speech to the legislators of geci georgia gia 1 I have saen seen negroes solve lems in quadratic equation and I 1 will wager my head against a turnip that there are not six members of the general assembly who could solve those problems I 1 myself could not solve them the professor uttered thew these words in proof of the fact that the negroes of georgia are getting in the lead educationally now what is true of the southern people in this particular ti is also true in a large measure of the northern Nort heru people although they have superior opportunities of knowing of the negro in this respect prof Bough tons article betrays his ignorance on this point and it is is plain that he has not put himself to much trouble to inform himself had he made as profound a re search into the present history of the negro as he made into his ancient history he would have known that instead of one success J ful negro physician in nashville there are nearly three hundred who grad graduated from some of the best beat medical colleges in this country and who show by their work at the bedside that they are the equals of ajsa er azu W frers he certainly would have kno known that there are several competent negro dentists instead of on one that I 1 one of the members of the faculty of the dental department of harvard university is a negro that dubois is not the only negro who has won a prize in contest with white students that not only was biddle university built by a negro i but that with few exceptions all the houses in the south are the work of negro carpenters the ideas suggested by the part of prof Bough tons article touching the race P problem came in the following questions ions 1 Is it the divine purpose that the race problem shall be solved by i amalgamation 2 would such a solution of the problem be desirable 3 can the problem not be solved in some other way than by fusion fasion taking these questions in their order der we have Is it the divine purpose that the raw race problem shall be solved by amalgamation maltion if it is a fact and there is no question as to that that the distinct racial types pea are the result of a providen bial 1 ordering then that fad fact is so BO f ar p a revelation of gods purse pose as to the find final disposition of thoraces the 3 races it does seem to me if lit it was the divine divin mind emina to muke make the whites and th the e blacks of this thia cotin country one at some future dao d ay that the the r in being mg diapers Hs fied ea fibia nm I 1 itne h e land an of shinar been sent to the erd n the oth other er influences influent that produced those airhea 1 eidth nin s K ether iv A ysa ts s i theether the other that have I 1 II 11 1 z ys y s lien W i fr ai imd eat sea a 1 jepy 3 y N Qa JeK tiSa ni characteristics the social conditions and the racial instincts of the two races raca are such as to make intermarriage between them by natural means very difficult it is fair to infer that it is not gods purpose to solve the problem in that way if we reflect a little upon jewish history we shall find that when the jews jewa were in egypt god used the physical and social differences be tween them and the and the caste resulting as means to prevent the jews losing their identity in egypt by amalgamation otherwise no doubt the jews would uld have been lost in egypt and gods plan respecting them would have been thus frustrated to be continued |