In the field of organized labor, Colored Americans are also making great
strides, the prejudice heretofore existing having almost disappeared. At
New Orleans, Mr. T. V. O’Connor, President of the International
Longshoremen’s Union, sounded the keynote when he declared, upon the
admission of Colored Longshoremen to the Union: “We are going to bring
about industrial equality. If Colored Americans stand ready to assist
themselves, they will get the same wages and working conditions that the
white man enjoys.”
THE FOUR DIVISIONS of MANKIND
The African One of the Purest Types
Of the four great primary divisions of the human race, the Aryan,
Mongolian, Semitic, and Hamitic, there are three that preserve their
racial type and have been little changed by intermixtures. These are the
Semitic, or Jews; the Hamitic, or Africans, and the Mongolians, or
Chinese.
The Aryan division spreading out from the Caucasus Mountains by way of
India, and thence westward, became split up into a hundred different
races, with varying peculiarities and racial differences, becoming as
they are today English, German, French, Irish, Scotch, Swedes, Finns,
Russians, Hindus, and a hundred other varying races that have
intermingled until the Aryan designation as a division of the human race
is entirely lost.
All these split Aryan races have become centralized in the United
States, where they are continuing their intermingling, and getting
farther away from the Aryan type.
On the contrary, the three other divisions, the Jews, the Africans, and
the Chinese, have maintained during all the ages since their creation,
their original characteristics, with only slight intermixtures, so
slight, indeed, that they are barely noticeable.
Historically, the races that make up the Aryan splits, are a mere breath
on the surface of the ages of time, when compared with the other three
divisions of the human race. Long before the ancestors of many of them
composed the barbarian hordes that thundered at the gates of the Roman
capitol, and finally effaced it from the face of the earth, the Jew, the
African, and the Chinaman, were in possession of the evidences of high
civilization, wise government, and splendid monuments, and cultivated
the arts of peace. The Aryan posterity, on the other hand, were warlike,
and became conquerors of the others, appropriating their arts, and are
still digging among the ancient ruins of splendid empires, wondering
what manner of people could have perfected such noble works.
All the races had many forward and backward movements, with the
dominance always with the warlike Aryan blood.
But today, in the United States, the Hamitic, the African, if you
please, has found and utilized the civilizing arts of the Aryan, and is
moving upward toward the pinnacle of the same civilization which is
essentially modern and original, and which retains the ancient
civilization of the other three great divisions of the human family, in
its museums as objects of curiosity and admiration. At the same time he
is maintaining his racial unity.