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Many an upper-class, conservative Negro, embracing the doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...
More of Amateur Darrow's philosophizings: "Nobody knows whether a black face is any less attractive than a white one. I say white, you know, although there is no such color. We noble Nordics are a sort of ashen-grey hue. . . . The fact that there are so many Negroes who are not colored shows how frequently colored girls have been raped by white men. "I was born where they believed he [a Negro] was better than the whites [at Kinsman, Ohio...
...American aristocracy must be nursed with flattery..... The farseeing painter will see that the shades of hair, face and eyes comply with the subject's desires, whether they match the actualities or not. . . . Everything has to be subordinated to the lips and the hue of the face powder. If we get those two right, the rest is easy. ... If I have any difficulty with the eyes, I generally paint them almost blue. One can never go wrong with blue...
...Marriage Problem. In his role of philosopher-guide he unfolds four principles upon which the marriage of the future must be based if success is to be assured. There are in these four principles no loopholes for the individualist; the development of self for which we raise our modern hue and cry gets short shift beside the more universal principles of Keyserling's philosophy. As he agrees at the outset "the fundamental problems of life cannot be settled according to a schedule, because they are both in reality and intrinsically individual problemss; on every occasion when they arise the individual...
This is all very true. It has been said before and will be said again. The public is perhaps tired of the repeated hue and cry about "professionalism", "modern gladiatorial combats", and "over emphasis". But repetition is one of the laws of education. A few score men will continue to fight these at the risk of becoming tedious...