(From the Boston Guardian)
That we much rather be, and asso
ciate among ourselves, is a saying by
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is a mistake it
is a feeling of avowed cowardice and
Innate inferiority. It is an utter im
possibilitay for the two races to sub
scribe to a common government, and,
at the same time, each race work out
its own salvation. The "theory" has
been tried and resulted into a ghastly
failure instead of making for har
mony and cordial good feeling be
tween two races, it has increased
race hatred and antagonism in leaps
and bounds. We have heeded too
long the advice from false and treach
erous leadership that resistance is
wrong, that it only breeds race hat
red and antagonism that the thing
for us to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follow
We have followed this "advice" faith
fully and have been rewarded in
terms of residince segregation, street
segregation, confiscation and lose of
property, anti-Intermarriagewhich is
all of the blackest pieces of legis
lation, since that it leaves our women
defenseless and at the mercy of white
brutes separate schools, jimcrow
cars, and even legislating to exclude
further Negro immigration. These
are the evils resulting from "non
resistance" and "rather be by our
selves." That with the same degree
of effontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken and
confiscated, with this same effontry
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from us.
