"If I Were White" by Clarence F. Holmes (unofficial title)

              GRACE CHURCH  YOUNG PEOPLES MtETING  Jan. 15, 1933.
Mr. chairman, and friends. I assure you that 1 deeply appreciate the invitation to appear before you young people who are doing so much to mold t
religious, civic and social life of udtiver. I know of no other church that is
potting *cn>i>s • fi, i
floing* the seven day a week job that Grace~ is o>o* ft 'j&r~**\\^m4m§  mpCJMMWK   It Mfe
tess^s* my g< od fortune to isaw** be^sm- actively associated with your Very efficient
and energetic minister, and his charming wife .over a period of many months in
the senior cosmopolitan Club, and in tnis way ± have come to know memm  a (hi iy ~p
Infiritoly many of #ate your fine members, so when x address you as friends, it
carries mof£ than the formal salutation used on such occasions. Some of the
most precious gems in my ciiain of friendship are .the Vahlbergs, Rages, Fiskes
Richards, jtfansens, i,rs. Kinney, otoess, John narccurt and many, otMer.s. tf\
erous to mention, who are members of this church./\I hope that we will make this
\I hope that we will make thii
>t very informalyand at the conclusion & shall be glad to try to ans-
wer aH-sf questions you young people may wish to ask.
(k»  you know, I believe tnere is notfiing too good for Grace u4*arch^ 1 have
been invited, througn the recommendation of nev. Wahlberg, to be on a symposium with x-ather 0*Rayan, nabbi *riedman, and Rev. «iles. My assigned subject is
"If I were Rfhite"
I shall assure that I am a white man of the most rabid negro hating ole-
ment of the ^outh who wants to make some contribution to the theory of"vVhite
supremacy" I have resolved however to only present the facts as l find tfter f
and not to color »0fe article with my own personl views. I do not wish to convey
the idea that the oouth is the only place whore Negro haters live, hot all too
often people excuse their prejudiced by stating, "you know, i am from tne uouth
and you know what i have been use tow. 1 have always neard that the negro was
inferior, that tne lowest white man was better than the best negro just as
the figure 1 on tne ^^J^f> of a decimal point is greater than a 9 on the right
of it. My argument is to be so persuasive and convincing that tnosc £entimen-
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