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    The Negro Problem
    The Negro Problem
    The Negro Problem
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    The Negro Problem

    By William Cabell Bruce

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    The Negro Problem is a collection of several essays by prominent American writers, such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Booker T. Washington. The book was published in 1903. It covered important topics like law, education, disenfranchisement, and Black Americans' place in American society.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 8, 2020
    ISBN4064066409036
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      The Negro Problem - William Cabell Bruce

      William Cabell Bruce

      The Negro Problem

      Published by Good Press, 2020

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066409036

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      From first to last it should be borne in mind that the Negro Problem is a race problem.

      It is true that the great mass of the Southern negroes vote republican ballots. This, however,

      is not because they have any definite convictions upon questions of public policy, nor yet,

      except to a limited extent, because it was the Republican party that conferred upon them

      freedom and the franchise, and that to-day affects to be their one champion and guardian.

      Their intellectual condition renders the first idea ludicrous. The second is largely shorn of its

      claims to consideration by the fact that enough negroes have resided at the North to fully

      enlighten their race at the South as to how far white Republicans in the former section are

      disposed to fraternize with the African in all the personal and business relations of life. When

      to correct information in this respect is added the begrudging spirit in which a few petty

      offices are awarded to the Southern negro as his part of the spoil of a presidential election,

      it is hard to see how the emotions excited in him by the Emancipation Proclamation, the

      post-bellum Amendments to the Federal Constitution and the present professions of the

      Republican party could be otherwise than considerably cooled.

      The Southern negro votes a republican ballot because it is the race prejudices of the

      Southern whites, which he heartily reciprocates, and not the race prejudices of the Northern

      whites, that bear directly upon his daily life, and because he knows that the Republican party

      is still numerously composed of partisans whose feelings towards the Southern whites are such

      that they would not hesitate to use even him as an agency for their degradation. If by some

      process of transposition all the Southern whites could be removed to the North, and all the

      Northern whites to the South, only a few years of race friction would suffice to foster a

      political antagonism between the latter and the negro, as marked as that which now exists

      between the former and him.

      The problem then is a race problem. Whatever gratitude the negro might feel for the

      political privileges, conferred upon him by the Republican party, he would be an even more

      highly organized individual than the white man, if he were capable of soothing the smart of

      the social and political proscription at the North, which excludes him from schools, hotels,

      places of amusement, positions of public trust and private employments other than menial,

      with memories of historical favors, of which he is as a rule so ignorant that, when the test was

      made at a recent banquet in a Northern city, it is said that not one of the negro waiters

      present was found to know who William Lloyd Garrison was.

      Side by side, or rather face to face at the South, there are two races, of all the members

      of the human family the most widely separated by salient and ineffaceable physical

      distinctions, and

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