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Show SERIOUS FEATURE OF NEGRO QUESTION. A curious and serious aspect of the negro question ques-tion came out in some of the speeches at the annual an-nual convention last week in Xcav York of the Xational Xa-tional Xegro Business league, viz.. that in s0m-places s0m-places some negroes decline to work for employers of their oavu race. One of the speakers. Judge Tel-rill, Tel-rill, referring to the matter, observed that: "The ihost serious feature of all is the unwillingness unwil-lingness of colored men and women to serve members mem-bers of their OAvn race. I am sorry to say this in the presence of white men, for it is the deepest-and deepest-and most serious indication of a lack of self-respect." self-respect." And, giving an example, the judge (say, tho report) "cited an instance of a colored washenvo- -4 man at Washington whp worked contciitedlv for a customer until she (the customer) appeared in person at the home of the laundress and proved t.. r be colored also. Then the surprised customer was told : I "'Xo, ma'am; no more oyouh wash fo' me. Ah's goin' into saheiety mahse'f .' Perhaps there may be a little exaggeration here, either by the reporter or the judge, but another of the speakers, T. Thomas Fortune, the well know:, (colored) editor of the Xew York Age, declared that : , 1 r?Ter, h?d7 uho kuows anything at all knows that black folks doivt want to Avork for black folk m domestic service," and, furnishing personal te-tnnony te-tnnony he said: "I can't get a negro at Millbank, X. J., where I live, to cut the lawn for me. though 1 would pay him $1.50 for it." e What is the explanation of this strange feature in negro character? Certainly Judge Terrill U right in insisting that it indicates lack of self-respect. self-respect. How can the colored man fairlv look for respect trom other races if he himself will not re- spect his oavti i Freeman's Journal j |