Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.