The Sixth Race
INFANT BABY RACE
BY JAMES SINGLETON
ORLANDO, FLA.
• Members of the Sixth Race
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PREFACE
To tli~ nation as well as tlie race: We find
that Grammar is incomplete without the ninth
part of speech as well as music without its six
parts. Now we haven't a history complete, neither
a complete geography as yet and wont have until
the sixth race Of mankind is added, saying noth¬
ing about architecture, machinery, race problem
and other scientific phenomena—Indian or Red
man ; Caucasian or White man ; Negro or Black
man ; Darkey or Colored man.
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Caucasian or White Man
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ANSWER to an Article in the April number of
Tom Watson's Magazine of 1906, written by the
unknown, in regards to the ungrateful Negro in
America, Africa and Santo Domingo, in regards
to what he has done and what he hasn't done, as
helping in human progress :■—
I beg to inform him that he has oversighted
the fact that there does not exist a negro race of
people in these United States of America. I also
beg to inform him of another fact, that is, that
the Caucasian race has done something, that no
other race has had the credit of doing, and that is
to be the originator of a distinct race of people,
known as the colored people in these United
States of America and when he says, that said
race, of which the* writer is one, is not doing or
has never done any or as much to help in human
progress as any other race, I beg to differ with
him. Will say that the birth of the said race is
but forty and some odd years and they have as
many inventions, made as many discoveries in the
same length of time, as any other race in historyr
and he can't say otherwise. They volunteered
and went to war sooner than any other race in the
defence of their country and they stand always
ready to go again if and when necessary.
Now in regards to Africa and Santo Domingo ;
I don't see that those people and their good-for-
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nothing-ness is any reflection on us at all, and we
don't feet so, because we don't see what have we
to do with the negroes in Africa as a race any more
than the Japanese have to do with the Chinamen;
or the Indians in the Everglades of Florida have
to do with the Esquimaux on the coast of Labra¬
dor. And if this is not the case, why then, the
whole business of us had better let's go back to
Adam and dwell. Now then, the first known
among us as chickens, was a strain of chickens
known as the Dunghill, and we have bred them
down now to other distinct strains known as Rhode
Island Reds, L,eghorns and others. Now you might
as well call them all Dunghills, and condemn the
idea of Rhode Island Reds. Now for further illus-
tration : Say for instance we make Demon Pies,
of wich the formula consists of several: first we
get the juice of the lemon, then the sugar, the
spices, then for the crust we use flour, water, salt
and grease and lastly we put just a little sweet
milk, then it is cooked and ready to serve—now
when the swell luncheon is ready, such as Bro.
Watson gives—now from the fact that you have
added a little- mite of cow's milk in your crust, I
say why not go around the table and inform the
guests, that they are eating instead beefsteak and
not lemon pie at all. There would be just as much
sense in it and just as fair as to call us negroes,
when we are not even a descendant of Africa as is
said► I dare say that you will find a negro occa¬
sionally just the same as you will find a few In¬
dians and other classes and wherever you may find
him, (the Negro) and his condition is of such as
you say and if he has never put a ship on the seav
we beg you to let us help you to be sorry for liim'„
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Negro or African
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We will pay no mind to the duke of Marmalade
in Santo Domingo, nor to the Marquis of Lemon¬
ade in Haiti—they are no reflection on us, but in¬
stead we had better watch the prince of Winter
Green in Russia, and the Christ of Gun Powder in
Japan, also the price of bombshells in this country.
Now about banks, syndicates and other industries :
It is said by the opposite race, that we possess
imitative ability and imitative ability only. Now
there isn't a shadow of evidence to that fact. If
that is a fact, it remains to be seen, because a race
would hardly be expected to think in forty years
the same as another race did in five thousand years.
Now before you can bring about a proof a thing
would have to be tried, if it were possible to bring
about a condition for a trial. Now you might as
well say that our native bees are learning the im¬
ported Italian bees how to work, form, construct
comb and make honey. Now according to your
statement, the only way that we can prove that it
is not a fact we would have to carry them to a
clime where there exists no other bees, then watch
and see.
It is a fact, that we are a distinct race of peo¬
ple, and you can't change facts. Whenever a fact
exists you cannot call it off. Now it is conceded
by all the civilized world, that the American white
people are the smartest people on earth, both in
science and rascality. And I find that the concep¬
tion does prevail, for the writer is an American
and has been nearly all over the civilized world,
and they look up to me as such. Now if this is
true, what about imitative ability? Did the Eng¬
lish people come back and forth and showed them
how to get there; no they did not, but the whole
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substance of it is a matter of time. Now I read a
speech made by one of our Congressmen in Con¬
gress on the 22d day of February inst., and he
learned tne something that I didn't know, that is,
if I learned it. He said that God Almiglitj' has
placed the seal of superiority upon the wrhite man.
I have been trying to think how he managed to
get his conclusions, but I fail, for in my judgment
that remains to be seen yet, for the placing of
seals is not done yet; it is to be done on the other
end. I won't be surprised if the colored race of
people in time do aspire to a higher perfection in
art and science and a higher civilization than the
white man ever dreamed of. Now we know that
these forty year old people are not a factor in mar¬
ket and we also believe that the white race can get
along without us and all like that. But market,
it is gradually coming, because the colored people
are loyal to this country and they have the welfare
of this government at heart, and he feels that
whatever is the white man's trouble is his also.
He does not believe in unions and strikes. You
will have to blame the other race for coaxing them
into it. He also believes that we cannot afford to
be divided in this country—anywa}T not until the
Panama canal is finished, if he did get in his first
shovel of dirt. They have also denounced the idea
of vankees, niggers and crackers, but simply all
one people, working for one common good. Now
Bro. Thomas Dixon said in the Saturday Evening
Post: "That the white people owe tliem a square
deal," but there is no square deal in the case, for
all people that are gone on ahead should provide
for and help their children, because we are noth¬
ing more nor less than the children of the Cauca-
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sian, unless I do not know what offspring means.
Sometimes we are still called Afro-Americans, now7
we are no Afro-Americans, we are not Anglo-Am¬
ericans, we are not French-Americans, but we are
a part of this nation and are just simply Ameri¬
cans. So quit calling us Afro-Americans. Itsounds
like the name African Methodist, which is a dis¬
grace to the American colored citizens. Now I
shall tell you who an Afro-American is or who is
an Afro-American if you don't know. Now I have
been all North America the fourth time over, and
in my travels I have met about—well we'll say
probably a dozen or so people who have emigrated
from Africa to this country and were made citi¬
zens and are in possession of their naturalization
papers and live to dwell in this country the bal¬
ance of their lives. Now those people are Afro-
Americans. See, you said you taught him how to
read, you taught him how to think. If you did
you have everything to gain and nothing to lose
by it. But, alas ! you did not teach him how to
live, because you taught him how to drink whis¬
key ; now if you will be equally interested and help
persuade him to cut the liquor out, then next thing
teach him to kick against the West India school
teachers in the Canal Zone, for it is a grave mis¬
take on our part. There isn't anything through¬
out those West India Isles that are fit to handle
the American people's children, from the fact that
we are their superior in every way. They all over
there are just alike educated and uneducated and
they are 110 more capable of teaching us what to
do than we are the white people of this country.
Now I have been all among these people, all
throughout those isles and they are not fit, and the
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biggest tiling they know to teach and tell a child
is to look up to the Union Jack. Or before he lies
'down at night, or before he rises at mom or be¬
fore he can pick a tune on his guitar, eat a meal
at his table, he must at all hazards ask "God to
save the king." And in other words those people
are our creatures and are the most undesirable
emigrants to the race we have. I have seen schools
in this country in which ninety per cent of the
patrons are children of these people and the fathers
of these children do not average three in a thou¬
sand that pay a poll tax ; and with other things
put together, that are too numerous to mention,
makes us those people's benefactors, so you see
that a creature is not supposed to lead and instruct
his benefactor. Now if colored people can't and
won't go to the canal zone to teach, why they
ought to get white Americans to go. We don't want
any of Santo Domingo ideas of legislation, com¬
merce and otherwise mockery instilled into our
children. Now while the white man is wholly
responsible for our being and existence, if they
will continue to give us a show, we will show them
whether we will make a race of ourselves or not
and hold up our end in the commonwealth of this
country.
And we hope the accuser will come to be a bet¬
ter philosopher.
BILIv SKIES,
The Pen Leader.
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I have in this pamphlet (said all that the idea
contains :) the race being in its kindergarten. A
further reason I wanted to keep the race subject
proper separate from race problem, which is to
follow. That is I will put a question to the white
people of this country, and if they answer in the
affirmative it is my conviction that I will outline a
synopsis which will, if put into operation, solve
the race problem in this country, for solving of the
problem is possible.
The conditions are here lying dormant out of
which could be wrought one of the greatest com¬
monwealths—a commonwealth that will defy a
parallel either in the past or challenge its claim in
future. The sooner the race problem is solved
the better it will be for all parties concerned.
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