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[[caption]] MME. E. AZALIA HACKLEY [[/caption]]

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THE COLORED AMERICAN MAGAZINE
VOL. XV.  MARCH, 1909  NO 3

THE MONTH

PATRONIZE NEGROES

President Taft has emphasized the point several times in his speeches that the Negroes of this country need business men and professional men among them, that the race may improve its standing in the eyes of the business and professional world.

This fact is so true it almost seems axiomatic. But we find many Negroes in business who are not doing much toward race uplifting by giving their professional business to Negro professional men. Especially is this true of a large number of the Negro undertakers (not all, however) in and around New York City, who give their legal and medical business to the whites, yet all of whose funerals are colored. Why don't these undertakers who do this get their funerals from the white lawyers and doctors? Certainly they should not consider themselves much other than conduit pipes, through which money paid them by Negroes goes directly into the hands of the whites – who do not need it individually or racially as bad as the Negroes do. 

Pursuing such a policy as this on part of the undertakers or others of the race who do it tends to dwarf and hinder race progress, and men who love the race and want to see it go forward will read these lines as wisely and timely written.
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AGAINST MIXTURE OF RACIAL STOCKS

"There should be no admixture of racial stocks," declared Retiring President Eliot, of Harvard University to-night in an interview. "I believe, for example, that the Irish should not intermarry with the Americans of English descent; that the Germans should not marry the Italians; that the Jews should not marry the French. Each race should maintain its own individuality. The experience of civilization shows that racial stocks are never mixed with profit and that such unions do not bring forth the best and strongest children. There is no reason, however, why the races cannot live together, side by side, in perfect peace and amity.

"In the case of the Negroes and the whites, the races should be kept apart in every respect. The South has a wise policy. I believe that