Persistence

Clarence S. Darrow's forecast for Negroes, as revealed to Negroes at Washington, D. C., last week, contradicted Dr. Hankins. Said Amateur Sociologist Darrow: "The [Negro] breed is not running out. They are here and are here to stay. They are not going to Liberia. The white people don't want them to go. If the colored people should try to leave in any general exodus in any Southern state, they would probably be met by force to keep them where they are. Somebody has got to work. We Nordics are not going to do it."

More of Amateur Darrow's philosophizings: "Nobody knows whether a black face is any less attractive than a white one. I say white, you know, although there is no such color. We noble Nordics are a sort of ashen-grey hue. . . . The fact that there are so many Negroes who are not colored shows how frequently colored girls have been raped by white men. "I was born where they believed he [a Negro] was better than the whites [at Kinsman, Ohio].

"There are probably half a dozen states in the Union where colored votes could settle a Presidential election. Why not settle it? They can settle them [elections] in Chicago, Detroit, New York, probably in Cleveland, along the Ohio River. ... It is a scurvy trade to make a living out of politics.

"Getting money and getting education are of first importance. The colored man . . . is getting it [education]--many people in the South say--faster than the white people. Intelligence is a misfortune to anybody, but especially to a colored person. If you do not know what is going on, a sort of fundamentalist, you are safe."