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Compiled  by London swaminathan

Date: 16^th September 2015

Post No: 2164

Time uploaded in London :– 20-35

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Prejudice against Race, Religion and Colour

Frederick Douglass, noted Negro author and champion of the rights of his people, was once invited to have tea with President Lincoln at the White House.

Whenever Douglass spoke of this occasion he always said, “Lincoln is the first white man I ever spent an hour with who did not remind me that I am a Negro.”

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Did Lord send you a message?

Innocently unaware of the prejudices held against him, an old coloured man, staunchly religious, applied for membership in an exclusive church. The pastor attempted to put him off with all sorts of evasive remarks. The old Negro, instinctively becoming aware that he was not wanted, said finally that he would sleep on it and perhaps the Lord would tell him just what to do.

Several days later he returned.

“Well”, asked the minster, “did the Lord send you a message?”

“Yes, he did,” was the answer. “He told me it wasn’t no use. He said, I have been trying to in that same church myself for ten years and I still can’t make it.”

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Jewish Ladies

A man who was talking with Sir Moses Montefiore at a reception, found the conversation so entertaining that he completely forgot the race of his companion and made some uncomplimentary remark about the Jewish features of a lady who was passing by. The mistake was no sooner made than it was perceived. The unhappy man began to apologise profusely. “I ask thousand pardons. It was so stupid of me to forget. You look angry enough to eat me. I beg you not to devour me.”

“Sir”, replied Sir Moses, “it is impossible. My religion forbids.”

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In the days of the great Abolition furore, Wendell Philips was accosted on a lecture tour by a minister who hailed from the state of Kentucky, a place with very different views concerning the ideas of the Abolitionists. The clergyman, who was more militant on behalf of his prejudices than on behalf of his creed, said, “Yoy are Wendell Philips, I believe.”

“Yes, I am.”

“You want to free the niggers, don’t you?”

“Yes, I do.”

“Well, why do you preach your doctrines up North? Why don’t you try coming down to Kentucky?”

Philips began to counter question the man. “You are a preacher. Aren’t you?”

“Yes, I am, Sir”

“Are you trying to save souls from Hell?”

“Why yes, Sir. That is my business.”

“Why don’t you go there then?” suggested Mr Philips.

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Theodore Roosevelt once said, “While I was a police commissioner of New York City, an anti – Semitic preacher from Berlin Rector Ahlwardt, came to New York to preach a crusade against the Jews. Many Jews were much excited and asked me prevent him from speaking and not to give him police protection.

This, I told them was impossible; and if possible would have been undesirable because it would make him a martyr. The proper thing to do was to make him ridiculous. Accordingly I sent a police under a Jewish sergeant, and Jew-baiter made his harangue under the active protection of 40 police, every one of them a Jew.”

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I am an Irishman!

He was a red faced, middle aged Irishman, who had taken just enough to make him officious. He kept a wary eye on the conductor, and a sympathetic one on the unsteady entering passenger. Opposite the Irishman sat a young man of the most pronounced Hebrew type. He watched pat with a humorous twinkle in his black eyes.

A good natured Negro got in, and took the seat next to the Irishman. Pat threw one haughty look at the black man; then, rising with great dignity, he said in terms of unutterable scorn: “a nagger!” and sat down next to the young Hebrew. Quick as a flash his new neighbour, with an exact imitation of Pat’s tone and manner, said, “an Irishman!” and too the vacant seat next to the Negro a titter went round the car, and one Irishman looked foolish.

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