Excerpt from Beacon Lights of the Race
This book is written, primarily, for the inspiration of the youth of the Negro race, for this particular race, of all other races under the sun, is most in need of inspiration. In the great scheme for the encouragement and inspiration of any race there is no more effective agency than the successful achievements and worthy lives of the members of that race.
False Traditions.
The youth of the race have been the victims of false and vicious traditions that have destroyed their stamina, paralyzed their energies, and wrought greater destruction with the future of the race than famine, pestilence or war. From the very cradle the youth of the race have had instilled in their minds that they were created by an all-wise Providence merely to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for the other races of mankind, and that there is no possible escape from that inexorable decree. The fiat of Providence is that every man shall earn his bread in the sweat of his own brow, and this decree applies to all men alike, irrespective of color or previous condition. The writer does not believe in the circumscriptions of Providence, as applied to any race, but he does believe that Omnipotence holds every man personally responsible for the manner in which he uses his opportunities, and that He confers upon every man the privilege of making his own monument of good or evil. This book is a clarion call to the discouraged and the weak, exhorting them to buckle on the armor of resolution, work out their destiny in the fear of the Lord, and take possession of the inexhaustible store of riches which benign Providence has bequeathed as an inheritance to every rational and responsible man.
History Should Be Impartial.
No people can be sure of impartial history if the narrators of their history are members of a different race, with views and traditions that are diametrically opposite and often inimical to the interests and welfare of those whose history they are to write. Impartial history can be written only by unprejudiced minds, for even the scales of justice tremble in the presence of bias and unnecessary hatred. The tendency from many outside sources has ever been to belittle the history of the Negro race and to deny that the race has ever done aught that is worthy of narrating.
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