The Serpent Seed #5 : The North American Pavement Ape

* 'It would be proper to raise the question whether the negro is capable of appreciating, desiring and conserving the benefits of civilization. The inertia of the negro in a state of servitude, his scarcely improved condition and certain diminution in numbers since enfranchisement in the United States, his political and social career in Hayti, his massacre of the agents and destruction of the agencies of civilization in St. Thomas, his helplessly subordinate station in the northern States of our Union and in Canada, his indifference to the benefits of civilization in Liberia, the persistent vitality of the voudoism among American negroes, in the close environment of a high civilization, and the negro's facile relapses, as in the Congo nation, into a state of abject barbarism, as soon as the props of foreign aid are removed, constitute a set of facts for grave reflection.