When Africa awakes: The "inside story" of the stirrings and strivings of the new Negro in the Western worldHarrison, Hubert H.
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When Africa awakes: The "inside story" of the stirrings and strivings of the new Negro in the Western world
Harrison, Hubert H.
African Americans; African Americans -- Race identity; United States -- Race relations
Now, when their party has shrunk considerably in popular support and
sentiment, they are willing to take up our cause. Well, we thank honest
white people everywhere who take up our cause, but we wish them to know
that we have already taken it up ourselves. While they were refusing to
diagnose our case we diagnosed it ourselves, and, now that we have
prescribed the remedy—Race Solidarity—they come to us with their
prescription—Class Solidarity. It is too late, gentlemen! This racial
alignment is all our own product, and we have no desire to turn it over
to you at this late day, when we are beginning to reap its benefits. And
if you are simple enough to believe that those among us who serve your
interests ahead of ours have any monopoly of intellect or information
along the lines of modern learning, then you are the greater gulls
indeed.
We can respect the Socialists of Scandinavia, France, Germany or England
on their record. But your record so far does not entitle you to the
respect of those of us who can see all around a subject. We say Race
First, because you have all along insisted on Race First and class after
when you didn’t need our help. We reproduce below a brief portion of
your record in those piping times of peace, and ask you to explain it.
If you are unable to do so, set your lackeys to work; they may be able
to do it in terms of their own “radical scientific” surface slush. The
following is taken from the majority report of one of your national
committees during one of your recent national conventions. It was signed
by Ernest Untermann and J. Stitt Wilson, representing the West, and
Joshua Wanhope, editor of the _Call_, and Robert Hunter, representing
the East, and it was adopted as a portion of the party program. We learn
from it that—
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