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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447981" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Notable Dinner</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one,<br>Who to lift a fallen people had a work of worth begun,<br>Lofty things had he accomplished for a race so long despised,<br>In a land where naught but color by the whites are ever prized.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Booker Washington, the teacher, with the president has dined,<br>Southern whites it gave convulsions, for to such they're not inclined,<br>'Tis the color, not achievements, that their fancies recognize,<br>Whites alone receive their plaudits, Negro worth they will not prize.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Roosevelt was censured sorely, half the country writhed and hissed,<br>Just because he shared his dinner with a Negro—there's the gist—<br>'Twas the manhood not the color that the president admired,<br>Souls of worth demand attention, only such his mind desired.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Down with Washington the 'nigger' and with Roosevelt, because<br>He has made of him an equal—how offensive to our laws,<br>Worthy deeds are not for black men' is the constant cry they raise,<br>'All advancement of such people brings proportionate dispraise.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hark! the press begins to clamor, to the South it says 'beware!<br>Lest equality with 'niggers' in the end we'll have to share;<br>Anti-nigger is our platform, how to crush a 'nigger' man,<br>Officers must be elected as resulting from this plan.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Washington is far above him—-any man who fails to see,<br>Good when found upon a Negro, from a lack of charity,<br>See the Southern degradation! view the monster once again,<br>How it measures deeds of merit by the color of the skin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Roosevelt was very careful on the choosing of a guest,<br>Here is what he did for Tillman, in his zeal to have the best, <br>Cancelled out his invitation and his company refused,<br>Dined the best of peoples only—other classes he excused.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down with prejudice and envy! should be wafted to the breeze,<br>For the Southern slaves of fashion need a prompt and sure release,<br>In the teachings of the Master while the path of earth He trod,<br>We've a brotherhood of races and a Fatherhood of God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lizelia+Augusta+Jenkins+Moorer">Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer</a><div class=q>
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