Thus far all of the State Supervisors for Negro schools have been white
men, and they in turn have been given the power to select the County
Supervisor for the Negro schools, all of which are colored.

These white men are not always able to get the most efficient persons
for such work because I know of a few County Supervisors here and there
who are not competent to do the work that has been intrusted to them.

Now as the Negro has nothing to say as to who should be his State or
County Superintendent of Education, it seems that in the matter of his
State and County Supervisors he should have a word. (I think it is right
and proper that the great funds for Negro education should be spent
through the State and county officials wherever it can be done.)

The State Superintendent ought to be given the power to select the most
competent Negro educator to be State Supervisor of Negro Schools, and
the County Superintendent ought to be given the same. Furthermore, as
each State has a Negro Education Association which meets once a year, I
think this Association should recommend to the State Superintendent of
Education a number of persons from whom he may select the State
Supervisor. In each county we have an organization, which is known as
the County Teacher Institute. This organization could recommend two or
more persons to the County Superintendent from whom he might select the
County Supervisor.

I feel and think in this way because in order to really help the people
one must go amongst them and know of their hardships, struggles,
desires, sorrows, and their joys, must talk with them, eat and sleep
with them and know their hearts. It would be asking too much of the
Southern white man to do this.

We know that in order to save the world God gave His only begotten Son,
Jesus Christ, who came to earth in the likeness of man, to save man.
Perhaps He might have sent an Archangel or an Angel, but this work of
redemption could only be done by His sending a person who was a man,
just like the men He was to save, and so it is with all great work of
reformation and evolution.

In order to help the people we must become like them. In Christ becoming
like man is what we call the humiliation of the Incarnation, and in that
lies the great secret of redemption and reformation.

Again, I feel that this is a day of democracy, and that the Negro should
be given a voice in the government of his schools. If this democracy, of
which we ar