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Negroes should have the same rights as we.
I know of no distinguishing traits.
My opinion is based largely on reading, as I never lived in the South. I had no early contacts. There were few Negroes near, and none in my schools. As authorities I would mention Professor Du Bois, Fannie B. Williams, Professor Graham Taylor. I know an able colored woman, a member of the Chicago Woman's Club and women who have worked in our home.
Occasionally I read a Negro periodical.
The discussion of lynchings and riots at home and church lead most frequently to the Negro.
Our schools, trades and professions should be opened to Negroes and they be permitted to take care of themselves. Let them follow their own bent so long as it injures no one else.
Of course, when you educate Negroes you increase their demands. Grant their demands.
Egotism and the jealousy that we whites are better are the basis of prejudice.
It is true that a minority has no right to expect complete justice from the majority, if Negroes reason from experience; but the colored race probably has idealists who hope for better future treatment.