6. THE NEW RACE-CONSCIOUSNESS. 76 The Negro’s Own Radicalism. — Race First versus Class First. — An Open Letter to the Socialist. Party. — “Patronize Your Own.” — The Women of Our Race. — To The Young Men of My Race. 7. OUR INTERNATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS. 96 The White War and the Colored World — U-need-a Biscuit. — Our Larger Duty. — Help Wanted for Hayti. — The Cracker in the Caribbean. — When Might Makes Right. — Bolshevism in Barbados. — A New International. The Rising Tide of Color. — The White War and the Colored Races. 8. EDUCATION AND THE RACE. 123 Reading for Knowledge. — Education and the Race. — The Racial Roots of Culture. — The New Knowledge for the New Negro. 9. A FEW BOOKS. 135 The Negro in History and Civilization. — Darkwater. — The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy. EPILOGUE: THE BLACK MAN’S BURDEN; A Reply 145 to Rudyard Kipling INTRODUCTORY The Great War of 1914–1918 has served to liberate many new ideas undreamt of by those who rushed humanity into that bath of blood. During that war the idea of democracy was widely advertised, especially in the English-speaking world; mainly as a convenient camouflage behind which competing imperialists masked their sordid aims. Even the dullest can now see that those who so loudly proclaimed and formulated the new democratic demands never had the slightest intention of extending either the limits or the applications of “democracy.” Ireland and India, Egypt and Russia are still the Ithuriel’s spear of the great democratic pretence. The flamboyant advertising of “democracy” has returned to plague the inventors; for the subject populations who contributed their millions in men and billions in treasure for the realization of the ideal which was flaunted before their eyes are now clamoring for their share of it. They are demanding that those who advertised democracy shall now make good. This is the main root of that great unrest which is now troubling the decrepit statesmanship of Europe and America. But the rigid lines of the old regime will not permit the granting of these new demands. Hence the new war against democracy which expresses itself in the clever but futile attempt to outlaw the demands for fuller freedom as “sedition” and “Bolshevism.”