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i CR RORERCRES, Udy eet ce heen Seen CR een tt Oe 7 o . : J MEET ee mepenens | one ee pe ee ce ee ee DEMOCRACY AND THE NEGRO By PEARL S. BUCK Ta editorial in THE NEW YORK TIMES of Nov. 12, “The Other Side of Harlem,” denies the basic cause for the situation in our country of which the new manifestation of. crime in Harlem is only a symptom slight enough for what it signifies. Nor are the constructive measures proposed sufficient. It would be impossible for any accumulation of social welfare work to solve the situation which produces crime in Harlem. We all know that merely to make arrests and impose jail sentences can be nothing but an emergency measure and one which promises no fundamental improve- ment for the future. But equally palliative are the efforts of welfare workers on the basis upon which they are now organized. : The reason why colored Americans are compelled to live L \ £ . in ghettos, where they are helpless against high rents and ey miserable housing, is the segregation to which race prejudic Key compels them. Race prejudice compels colored people to SN take what work they can get because there are so many jobs Negroes cannot get. Race prejudice makes and keeps Neproes” wages low Besuse some labor unions will not admit colored labor on the same basis as white labor. Race preju- dice and race prejudice alone is_the_root_of she “pent of — people in greater and lesser Harlems_all over our-country~ penne ree eee . 13 BE eb rhe oe pA A a ed ess 5. oe eee