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Pearl Buck — Part 1
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Hypocrisy Seen .
f am, [ think, realistic and objective on this matter of
race, having lived most_of my life amon colored peoples.
My owt ancéstry i entirely Southern, and [ am very familiar
With the problems of Whey colored in the South. Ido- --- >
- Rot, however, believe their solution is to be found in what ;
the average white Southerner Says, in the familiar patter, tha Ps
: a . the Negro is-a “childish - créature, delightful enough in his
ne Negro is afraid of his white master and says what the white
man wants him to say. The same Negro quickly expresses
himself in totally different terms a8 soon as he changes his
locale and is relieved of his fear,
But be that as it may, the real point is that our democracy
° does not allow for the Present division between a white ruler
race and a subject colored race, and we ought to make up
Our minds as to what we want and then move to accomplish
it. If the United States is to include subject and ruler meg
Peoples, then let us be honest about it and change the Con- me
stitution and make it plain that Negroes cannot share the i Loe
Privileges of the white People. True, we would then be Swe
totalitarian rather than democratic; but if that is what we - °
want, let us say so and det us tell the Negro so. Then the oe
we are able to keep the weapons of rebellion from them—
and these include education.
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