It is the blackest page in the annals
of the world.
CENSUS SEGREGATION.
"Negroes in the United States," is
the title of a pamphlet just issued by
the United States Census Bureau. The
title is misleading, for there are only
473 real Africans in the United States,
according to the Census, that is Ne
groes born in Africa.
The United States assumes that a
group of about 10,000,000 people are
Negroes and proceeds to so classify
them. More than ninety-nine per cent
of the persons so classified were born
in America of American parents, and
their parents were Americans and so
on back for ten generations.
If a man whose ancestors for many
generations is not an American, who
is entitled to the name? If a white
man can become an American in two
generations, why should a person of
any other color born in this country
fail to "arrive" in the same space of
time?
The name "Negro" applied to a
group of citizens in this country is in
accurate, because it does not include
forty or fifty million other Americans
who have more or less Negro blood.
The expression
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THE SIN OF SILENCE
To sin by silence when we should
protest makes cowards out of men.1"
The human race has climbed on pro
test. Had no voice been raised against
injustice, ignorance and lust, the in-
quisition yet would serve the law, and
guillotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs of
many.Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
race" is amyth
so ail great writers on racial questions
agree.
The mixing of bloods in this country
has gone* so far that it is impossible
so does the writer.
