RACIAL CONFLICT

Evening Star, Issue 19128, 21 December 1925, Page 14

RACIAL CONFLICT

THE POSITION IN AFRICA A note of warning that if something is not done to establish bolter relations between tho black and white races, terrible conflict will result, was sounded by the Eor. Frank Uurly, of Hamilton, iu an address to tho Auckland Rotary Club. The problem of tho African races was dealt with by Mr Party. He_ briefly touched upon tho history of Africa and the slave trade, saying that to-day the white and black men of Africa had a common destiny, and they would have to find their own way out. The problem was ono for tho British people. There were three system under which black labor was employed in Africa. In British West Africa ilio blacks worked their own holdings, and in return for their products received tho manufactured goods they needed. Then thore was the ordinary employed labor and tho forced labor in Portuguese territory. In British Bast Africa there was no forced labor. Tho land trouble was very acute in Africa. The Bantu, who loved their land and cattle, wore gradually being driven off their holdings '. This kind of thing rankled in the 'heart of the black man, and was becoming a very acute danger. To sav that the native African was hr/.v was absolutely wrong. During the last sixty years ho had progressed to a wonderful degree. “ The danger is made more acute by the intense race hatred existing iu South Africa and in South America,” Mr Hardy said. “Tho sense of injustice is _fusing tho colored peoples together, and for tho first time in history it is making them have race consciousness. Tho problem ol bfack and white must bo solved by this generation.” The African peoples demanded education, industrial equality, a share in the election of their rulers, and tho right to bo treated as human beings. At, present there were churches for blacks and for whites, and the two races wore senaratod in every way. In Jamaica tho race problem had been solved. Do spent his early yeai-s there and the black man was treated with equality. There were black lawyers, black doctors', and black clergymen, and they wore exceedingly learned and polilr. It, was where the 'black man was treated as an inferior that tho trouble, aro.-.e. The grout problem bad to bo decided now, and the best way was the peaceful one. It would bo a slow business, but would be worth while in the end.