Richmond Planet

Race Amalgamation Bill Being Passed in Va. Legislature.
Much Discussion Here on Race Integrity and Mongrelization---Bill Would Prohibit Marriage of Whites and Non-whites.--"Skull and Bones" Discusses Race Question.

The Race Amalgamation Bill was passed in the Virginia Senate last Wednesday. This bill is designed to prevent the marriage of whites and non-whites and has created considerable discussion here on the race question, especially along the lines of miscegenation, race integrity and mongrelization. The bill as passed eliminates the compulsory registration feature and leaves it to the individual to register his parentage as the act goes into effect.

The address of Mr. John Powell before the legislature created somewhat of a stir. His main plea was for what he termed the maintenance of the integrity of the white race to preserve its superior blood. At the regular meeting of La Critique, at the Y. W. C. A. last Saturday evening this phase was the subject of the hour. Mr. T. L. Dabney, the president of La Critique opened the discussion with his report of the speech delivered by Mr. Powell. He was followed by Messrs. Best, Ivey, Hicks and Prof Maloney of Virginia Union and Misses Huejes and Edwina Clay. The general trend of the discussion was against the assumption of blood preeminence of the white race and a denial that the progeny of two races is inferior to both.

There were several white persons present and Mr. Ernest Cox, noted biologist and traveler, discussed the question from the viewpoint of the great man concept, taking the position that the white race in all of its purity had only produced seven or eight great men in a quarter of a million years and that if the Negro blood is allowed to seep into the Caucasian, it would mean practically the cessation of even this small production of really great men.

Letters from world famous biologists were read in answer to the questionnaire sent out by La Critique.