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 SuccessMiller, Kelly
Philosophy
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
Miller, Kelly
African Americans; African Americans -- Education; African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964
They are all intensely interested in education, and their children
possess an insatiable thirst for knowledge. As a consequence they are
always ready to seize upon opportunity when it comes their way, and they
always profit by experience, and gather information from every source.
Many of the most distinguished scientists and statesmen in the world
have been Jews, and although able to dictate financially to governments,
and possessing political power, they have never yet attempted to seize
upon the reins of any government, or take it out of the hands of those
selected to govern.
If a Jew were to become President of the United States, and all the
offices filled by Jews, the government would run along the lines upon
which it was formed, without a change or jar, and at the expiration of
their term of office, or a change in political power, they would lay
down their trust and return to their individual avocations without a
single regret.
This is a unification such as the world has never before dreamed of. And
it is the same unification with regard to the Colored Americans. The
situation is the same, the conditions identical with the single
exception that the Jews are farther advanced than the Colored man, his
experience extending over a larger period of time, but the Colored men
are improving and soon they should be where the same sort of unification
can be said of them.
THE AMERICAN INDIAN
The American Indian has no ancestry of civilization to look back to. His
forebears so far as is known to history were savages, and the Indians
found in America by the first white settlers were also savages.
Their origin as a race is shrouded in obscurity, some asserting that
they are descendants of the Semitic race of Asia, others that they are
Turanian and Malaysian mixed. It is certain, however, that nothing
remains of any very ancient civilization, what does exist consists of
“mounds” containing crude articles of pottery, flint arrows, etc., and
in the case of the descendants of the cliff dwellers in New Mexico and
Arizona, their habitations remain, showing that their surroundings were
crude and their civilization at a low ebb.
The descendants of the Aztecs, Toltecs and other tribes whose ancestors
were ruthlessly slaughtered by Cortez and his Spanish soldiers, and
oppressed by his successors, had small title to what is known as
civilization. Of these little can be said except that the present
descendants present the vestiges of degeneracy, and have no marks of
being a pure race of any sort. They are just the same as they were when
first discovered, barring vices which they have acquired from the
civilized races without receiving any benefit from their virtues.
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