Progress and Achievements of the Colored People / Containing the Story of the Wonderful Advancement of the Colored Americans—the Most Marvelous in the History of Nations—Their Past Accomplishments, Together With Their Present-day Opportunities and a Glimpse Into the Future for Further Developments—the Dawn of a Triumphant Era. A Handbook for Self-improvement Which Leads to Greater Success

by Kelly Miller; Joseph R. Gay

THE CHINESE

The Chinese are as near the pure Turanian stock as it is possible for a race with their environments to be.

The samples that come to the United States for employment are coolies, mongrels of the race, just as we have natural born mongrels from intermixtures with degeneracy.

But the real Chinaman, the Manchurian, and his similars among the pure Turanian strain, are magnificent men physically, without the slant eye, and highly educated in the Chinese fashion.

Like the other grand divisions of the human race, they lived along for ages in peace and comfort, until the outside barbarian in the form of the little Japanese came along and shattered his dreams of content. As Alaric and his Huns battered down the gates of Rome; as the Romans put an end to the Jewish nation; as the combined attacks of the gold hungered kings of Europe and Asia subdued and obliterated the vast Ethiopian empire, so little Japan routed the big Chinese empire.

But this accomplished something that emphasizes the idea of a universal unification of the nations of the world. Japan forced open China and its people saw the opportunity, and took it. After studying the methods of civilization, particularly those in vogue in this great republic, its students returned to their native land, and aroused the half a billion people from the slumbers and behold! A vast republic. The Chinese are in line with modern education, with the arts of civilization. Like the Japanese, they have begun to wear American clothing. Withal, they have abandoned their old pagan practices, killed their dragon, and are rapidly coming in under the remorseless movement toward the unification of the world.

ETHIOPIA, THE GREAT BLACK EMPIRE
THE AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE AND ALSO RECENT DISCOVERIES IN AFRICA PROVE THE ANCIENT AND POWERFUL CIVILIZATION OF THE COLORED RACE 3,000 YEARS B. C.—THE STORY OF CANDACE, THE BEAUTIFUL BLACK QUEEN OF ETHIOPIA, AND THE MARRIAGE OF MOSES TO AN ETHIOPIAN WOMAN 1490 B. C.—HOW PIANKHI, THE BLACK KING, CONQUERED EGYPT 750 B. C., AND HOW EGYPT TOOK HER CIVILIZATION FROM ETHIOPIA.

We read about Napoleon, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Catherine of Russia, Marie Antoinette of France, and other kings and queens, many of whom led mysteriously cloudy lives and came to a bad ending, but few have ever heard of Queen Candace, Queen of Ethiopia.

You are referred to the Bible (Acts 8:27) as a beginning of the information to follow.

Few among the learned in this present age, and less of the unlearned, know anything about the origin of the colored race in the United States. They are completely in the dark as to their ancestry, as a powerful and highly civilized race of people.

The fact is, that while the Anglo-Saxons, Celts, Scandinavians, Germans, and so on, wore skin coats, devoured their food raw, lived in caverns, and were busily engaged in cutting one another’s throats over dry bones, the ancestors of our Colored people in these United States were enjoying the highest arts of civilization, lived in palaces, and erected magnificent specimens of the most wonderful architecture in the world, and behaved generally like civilized people.

Recent and authentic discoveries in Africa have brought to light, through monuments and other evidences, that the Hamitic race played a very important part in the first stages of the world’s history. There are modern records, which, together with the great number of monuments of great antiquity, demonstrate without the shadow of a doubt that the African civilization of the Hamitic race, was older than the most ancient history recorded of the Egyptians, going back centuries before the birth of Moses.