Griggs, Sutton Elbert, 1872-1933 . Friction between the races : causes and cure
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Three Alternatives

    There are three alternatives before the American people, white and colored:

    1. The psychology of the white people must be changed to fit institutions suited to the Negro mentality, or

   


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2. The psychology of the Negro must be altered to suit American life, or

    3. There must be increasing friction, the psychology of the white people becoming more and more desperate with the increasing power of a psychology different from their own.

    A lack of psychological adjustment between the races endangers all adjustments. Until there is such adjustment the more powerful the colored people become the more certain and the more drastic will be the restraints imposed to prevent the Negro mentality from making over the institutional life to suit itself. The psychological adjustment is therefore the most important of all adjustments.