"If the white man is to remain white, color problems
must persist. As long as there is a color line, there will
be a color problem. Our future is clouded by such
problems. They will not grow less, but ever greater,
and our children's children will bear them as intensified burdens."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote in his journal in 1846, "The United States will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic, which brings him down in turn. Mexico will poison us".
must persist. As long as there is a color line, there will
be a color problem. Our future is clouded by such
problems. They will not grow less, but ever greater,
and our children's children will bear them as intensified burdens."