Such conditions show that the undeveloped Negro has been abandoned by those who should help. The educated white man, said an observer recently, differs from the "educated Negro" who so readily, forsakes the belated element of his race. When a white man sees persons of his own race tending downward to a level of disgrace he does not rest until he works out some plan to lift such unfortunates to higher ground; but the Negro forgets the delinquents of his race and goes his way to feather his own nest, as he has done in leaving the masses in the popular churches.
This is sad indeed, for the Negro church is the only institution the race controls. With the exception of the feeble efforts of a few all but starved-out institutions, the education of the Negroes is controlled by the other element; and save the dramatization of practical education by Booker T. Washington, Negroes have not influenced the system at all in America.
- Woodson, Carter.The Mis-Education of the Negro. Washington: Associated Publishers, 1933.
