On the other hand, people are usually surprised if the Negro boy does not fail.

In a word, the Negro youth starts out with the presumption against him.
The influence of ancestry, however, is important in helping forward any individual or race, if too much reliance is not placed upon it.

Those who constantly direct attention to the Negro youth's moral weaknesses, and compare his advancement with that of white youths, do not consider the influence of the memories which cling about the old family homesteads.

I have no idea, as I have stated elsewhere, who my grandmother was.

I have, or have had, uncles and aunts and cousins, but I have no knowledge as to where most of them are.