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In the course of his paper he says, "There are three things that might be changed with benefit to the negro: his home, his religion, and his schools." Regarding the last mentioned of these three suggested changes he says: "Another disadvantage the negro has to contend with is a wrong teaching in the public schools. The white man has the same disadvantage, but he is better able to overcome it than the negro is. Our public-school system is wrong, and until it is righted the negro will find life a puzzling bundle of insincere contradictions that he cannot understand. We are teaching the child that labor is degrading and that he may |