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Chinese vs. Negroes as American Citizens / Mr. Scottron's Views on the Advantages of the Proposed Negro Colonization in South America

Chapter 2: MR. SCOTTRON’S VIEWS
By Samuel Raymond Scottron
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The essay responds to renewed debate over the so-called negro problem, arguing that constitutional enfranchisement settled that question and that social advancement will occur gradually rather than by miracle. It compares African Americans' position with that of Asian peoples newly under U.S. authority, weighing assimilation versus exclusion and addressing proposals for colonial relocation of Black Americans to South America. The author contends that the nation must formulate a just, practical policy for integrating or managing different racial groups in newly acquired territories while recognizing the slow pace of social change and the citizen rights already secured.

MR. SCOTTRON’S VIEWS

On the Advantages of the Proposed Negro Colonization in South America.

AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION.

Says Negro Possesses Qualities That Render People Readily Assimilable Into the Body Politic.

The following letter and paper by S. R. Scottron, a member of the School Board and one of the best known and most highly esteemed Afro-Americans in Brooklyn, will be of interest at this time:

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle:

The article published in the Eagle Sunday last, “Talks of Tropical Colonization,” with Mr. Alleyne Ireland, is certainly very interesting reading, bearing upon a subject that must engage the attention of thoughtful Americans. Mr. Ireland, however, seems to have assumed that the government will be obliged to continue the employment of Asiatic races in the development of the newly acquired territory in the Pacific. Taken in connection with what appears in to-night’s Eagle, wherein appears an account of an interview with Senator M. C. Butler, recommending that the negroes of the United States be colonized in South America, these articles seem to warrant my offering to the Eagle an article prepared before the publication of the aforementioned interviews, bearing upon the same subject, and offering what I may be permitted to assume a better solution of the subject of colonization, since it will serve a double purpose, covering the suggestions of both distinguished gentlemen.

S. R. SCOTTRON.

Brooklyn, N. Y., 598 Monroe street, September 19, 1899.