Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote in choosing at least twelve...
...measure neared a vote, last week, General Smuts flayed General Hertzog for dragging the great and vital "race question" into party politics. Every South African election is bound to be just another dogfight between Generals Hertzog and Smuts; but there is indeed something awful and "above party" about the fact that throughout the Union of South Africa white skins are in a minority of one to four. That is the "race question," and it may well trouble every British paleface from the King-Emperor down...
Only a trained ear would detect in this powerful pronouncement the fact that General Smuts was weasling and must weasle every word he says about the "race problem." True, the Negroes of Cape Colony vote for him, but they are the only blacks in all South Africa who are enfranchised; and in all the other provinces General Smuts draws his support from whites who are fanatically opposed to giving their blackamoor neighbors the ballot...
...doctor. Spirituals, nicely sung, occur, as advertised, 30 times in the hour and ten minutes Hearts in Dixie takes to run. The voodoo doings, the cotton pickings and Bible-shoutings are just what a certain class of people, educated to consider Negro life "colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing somebody named Massa, is repetitious. All is redeemed, however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit, cast as "Gummy," laziest of blackamoor...
Count Leo Tolstoy, dying, bequeathed the rights of all his stories to mankind. Last fortnight two groups of his legatees-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. on the one hand, Columbia Pictures Corp. on the other-began a race to see which would be first to release the Tolstoy story, Redemption...