In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

You must give your own story to the world.