He [John C. Minkins] said the Negro need have no objection to absolutely prohibitive laws against miscegenation, as they would give him a far wider range of matrimonial choice than any other race on earth, since he could have all the thirty-second degree Negroes and more than 1,100,000 others, ranging from half white to thirty-one thirty-seconds white, from which to choose, adding, “The range is wide enough and attractive enough to satisfy the most adventurous and exacting among us.” He was not disposed to be disturbed by legitimate miscegenation and its ultimate effects, as they would take care of themselves as they had done ever since the present European Caucasian races sprang from the Negro’s ancestors, the Euro-Africans.
“John C. Minkins on Race Purity,” The Indianapolis Recorder: A Weekly Newspaper Devoted the to Best Interest of the Negroes (May 7, 1910), page 1, columns 4-5. http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/IRecorder/id/18654/rec/1.