RACE WAR IN AMERICA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1032, 28 November 1912, Page 4

RACE WAR IN AMERICA.

WILL APPAL CIVILISATION

Accordiug to Dr. Giddings, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, there is a race war coming in the United Stales between whites and blacks, which will appal civilisation. He mentions that there are twelve million coloured people in America, and they multiply with great rapidity. He denounces the enfranchisement of the negro as a great political blunder, and maintained that political rights had been a hindrance rather than a help to the negro. Dr. Giddings considers that the Civil War did not solve the problem of slavery, that the conditions in the South are as bad as ever, and that the black man cannot win social equality through political liberty. “ The white man," be concludes, “considers the black man so inferior to himself that he does not oppose him or give him much consideration as a rival; but with the improved opportunities ot the negro, with better education and extended privileges, he must inevitably claim a place alongside the whiteman as his equal. If he should be able to back up his claim on the strength of education and economic equality, then we may prepare to witness a race conflict compared to which the present situation is a love feast.”

Dr. Giddings’ idea is that the negro should have been enfranchised gradually, according to his mental development, and in that way many problems which now vex his condition would have been avoided.