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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Ultimate Criminal, by Archibald H. Grimke This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Ultimate Criminal The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 17 Author: Archibald H. Grimke Release Date: February 17, 2010 [EBook #31299] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ULTIMATE CRIMINAL *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. OCCASIONAL PAPERS, NO. 17. THE AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY. THE ULTIMATE CRIMINAL ANNUAL ADDRESS ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE PRICE : : 15 CTS. WASHINGTON, D. C.: PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY 1915 THE ULTIMATE CRIMINAL. It is the fashion nowadays for every one with a stone in his hand to take a shy at the poor Negro on account of his sins of commission and omission. It is enough that some member of the race is caught _flagrante delicto_ or merely on suspicion of evil doing to get himself into the public pillory and the rest of the colored people into our national rogues' gallery, where they evoke instantly the loud lamentation of white saints and sinners alike, and the statistical and sophistical conclusions of a lot of fools and hypocrites. Now do not misunderstand me. I do not deny that Negroes commit crimes. Not at all, for I know full well that they do--altogether too many for their own good. But what I object to among other things is that America, because of the crimes of individual Negroes or because of the suspected crimes of individual Negroes, draws an omnibus indictment against the moral character of the whole race, which is monstrously unjust and wicked. Who cares to inquire into the origin of Negro crime, or into the causes which have contributed mightily to produce the Negro criminal? The book of the Genesis of this man's crimes awaits to be written by an impartial and sympathetic seeker after truth. The causes which have operated for fifty years to produce Negro criminals will some day, I trust, be traced without fear or bias to their source. I do not pretend to possess any scientific qualification for such a task, but I d
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