es.

Kelly Miller, himself a full-blooded black (for which the Negroes have
expressed their gratitude), refers to the backwardness of the negro in
the following terms:

To expect the Negroes of Georgia to produce a great general
like Napoleon when they are not even allowed to carry arms, or
to deride them for not producing scholars like those of the
Renaissance when a few years ago they were forbidden the use of
letters, verges closely upon the outer rim of absurdity. Do you
look for great Negro statesmen in states where black men are
not allowed to vote? Above all, for southern white men to
berate the Negro for failing to gain the highest rounds of
distinction reaches the climax of cruel inconsistency. One is
reminded of the barbarous Teutons in _Titus Andronicus_, who,
after cutting out the tongue and hacking off the hands of the
lovely Lavinia, ghoulishly chided her for not calling for sweet
water with which to wash her delicate hands.

It is not too much to say that no Negro and no mulatto, in America at
least, has ever been fully in the white man's world. But we must
recognize that their backwardness is not wholly due to prejudice. A race
with an adequate technique can live in the midst of prejudice and even
receive some stimulation from it. But the Negro has lost many of the
occupations which were particularly his own, and is outclassed in
others--not through prejudice but through the faster pace of his
competitors.

Obviously obstacles which discourage one race may stimulate another.
Even the extreme measures in Russia and Roumania against the Jew have
not isolated him. He has resources and traditions and technique of his
own, and we have even been borrowers from him.

C. ISOLATION AND SEGREGATION

1. Segregation as a Process[110]

Within the limitations prescribed, however, the inevitable processes of
human nature proceed to give these regions and these buildings a
character which it is less easy to control. Under our system of
individual ownership, for instance, it is not possible to determine in
advance the extent of concentration of population in any given area. The
city cannot fix land values, and we leave to private enterprise, for the
most part, the task of determining the city's limits and the location of
its residential and industrial districts. Personal tastes and
convenience, vocational and economic interests, infallibly tend