William Pickens
William Pickens
William Pickenswas an African-American orator, educator, journalist, and essayist. He wrote two autobiographies, first The Heir of Slaves, in 1911 and second Bursting Bonds in 1923, in which he mentioned race- motivated attacks on African Americans. both in the urban riots of 1919 and by lynching in 1921...
dispel prejudice
If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
problem
It is not the ought-ness of this problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!
taken color prejudice
Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.