Word: racialization
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...White Australian policy," said Mr. Vaughan, "is one designed to keep Australia free from such racial problems as exist in this country and in South Africa. It is a policy directed towards the total exclusion from the Commonwealth of all nations of Asia. But if danger threatened it would equally apply to colored people of other countries. All parties are agreed as to the wisdom of such a policy...
...California has placed the nation in a position where it must act. It is far better to decide now what shall be the attitude of the United States toward this unique class of Oriental immigration than to allow the question to go unsettled in the face of the rising racial hatred of the people of the Pacific Coast...
...attitude of the New England states toward this California problem is analogous to their attitude toward the South for the several decades immediately after the Civil War. They do not see why two utterly different and incompatible racial groups cannot lie down together like lambs. The fact of race hatred, like any other of the irrational and abstractedly reprehensible dispositions of man, cannot be wished or argued away. In order that this fact may appear it is necessary that the incompatible races should be actually in contact, working and competing with one another. It appears in the West for this...
...flame than has yet been the case. When violence, lynching, anti-Japanese Ku Klux Klans, and race-riots make their appearance in the West, as they no doubt will if the Japanese are allowed to take possession of the land and the work which the American considers his by racial right, we shall have a situation much more dangerous to international peace than the present slight wound to Japanese sensibilities...
...clauses" of some Southern States, may be in conflict with the spirit and letter of some fundamental clauses of the Constitution, but they deal with emergencies which that document was not designed to meet specifically, but only generally and abstractly. They are attempts at a peaceful settlement of pressing racial problems. And the Californians, far from being "scare-mongers," have done their proper part towards forcing the nation to settle a question of whose gravity few people outside of California are aware. The Californians are distinctly on the side of peace. RALPH M. EATON, Instr. November...