The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-08-28
MARCUS GARvEY'S MEETING
ADOPTS BILL OF RIGHTS
70 GOVERN NEGROES OF
THE WORLD.
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absolute necessity 70 the future OF IN,
negro race and that II Is an absolute
necessity for us TO set this movement
running at fun power from this houi
forth.
Races asExtinctiOn..
If the negro does not show in IN,
next century that he is the equal o.
the white In capacity. in lighting pow.
en-. the white man viii never give hin
the chance to show IT, With his con.
troll OF Industry, Of communication, Of
munition power the white Will doml.
nate the negro In Africa and out OF i
to an extinction as complete as that
OF the American Indian.
Yes, l think It viii come to q test
Of lighting power. DO not misunder-
stand me here. II is not the purpose
OF this movement, now or at any time
armed or unlawful rebellion by the
negro against the constituted author
ity Of countries like the United States
where he IS domiciied. cheated OF his
rights though he may be In these
Africa for Africans
But in Africa, It II different II
the Creator ever intended a land for
negro. 1t Is the purpose OF this moye-
Inent first to prove the holloWness OF
the white mans claim to racial SUI
periority by developing within our
race capacity for industry, for ciyi-
lization, for war. then to assert aud
establish the complete independence
Of Africa from the white mans rule.
1t win come 70 a test of fighting
we know their determination for the
future, will not yield Africa TO its
rightfui possessors without war.
After the test, the case OF the
negro will be the case over again OF
Japan after the Russo-Japanese war
He VIII not be loved, perhaps Preju-
dice will not be eliminated. But II
viii remain merely as a harmless Gem
ent--harmless-b no nation
relations Of life and diplomacy. For
like the japanese to-day the negroes
VIII be respected because other races
win hold their strength in fear. Then
the negro Will be free as the Japa-
nese Is to-day TO work out his own des-
tiny in his own land"
Evidence on Every Hand
The evidence for the crucial nature
of the Negroes situation? 1T is on
every hand" Mr.. Garvey continued.
In the race riots and denial Of in
negroes travelled In European coun-
so no longer. In Africa, in the West
Indies, the repression of the white
increases as the negro daily strives
against odds to demonstrate his gem
ius for progress Patronizlng treat
ment Of the negro as II he were a child
Is merely the kindest form which such,
repression takes
.The present is the crisis because
IL another generation is allowed TO
pass without beginning the correction
of these conditions they will be sta
bilized forever in law. In Industrial
and social organization"
Yet the negro has his chance. Mr..
Garvey continued--the chance which
Japan utilized. He knows the secrets
OF the white mans civilization, said
the leader He understands their
government their industry. He knows
the white man even down to the tricks
OF his diplomacy and politics so that
he can assay statement of Lloyd
George or Clemenceau to their Parlia-
ments about the interest and affection
Of the British and French Governments
for their loyal African colonies at its
ridiculous worth. The Indian was an
innocent child. The negro is civil
lied man who can initiate and im-
prove upon. as the Japanese did, all
the mechanism by which the white
man rules society.
Must Erect Organization.
1T is because he must base his
whole struggle for Independence upon
his capacity TO do these things that
the first steps In our movement call
Tor the development OF negro industry.
OF a complex negro SOCIAL organlza-
That q VvhU found lQllnnfloG.
a steamship company with $10,000,000
capital, $1,000,000 paid In by 1900
This convention is not q
meeting to sell stock in the Black
Star Line. but Il Is significant Of the
serious side of our Industrial pro-
gramme that practically all of the
delegates TO the convention are stock
holders. But these enterprises are
Booker Washlngton's work at Tuske-
gee was a beginning, of the Industrial
structure which the negro must cree
ate for himself II he is TO become
The Independence dreamed OF by
Garvey for his race Is a distinctly
separatist independence, he declared
THE negro does not desire social In
with other races any more
than other races desire H." be con-
cluded. He believes that the Creator
in making some<men black, some men
white, and some men yellow had
purpose OF his own, which It Is not the
part OF man to seek to check.
The negro loyal to his race should
not even consider himself the citizen
OF any country except Africa My an
cestors when they were brought
against their Will to Jamaica did not
take out naturalization papers, l de-
clare the pseudo standardization ac-
by that act OF force null
and void in the case OF their great
grandson. do not know the legal
points involved In this stand. but !
know the right. For negroes there
Is no citizenship, except in neglibleI
1.-THE white religion itself Is not
satisfactory to the negro. Its mis-
sionaries have been but the advances
guard of the rum sellers, the slave
hunters, the tyrants, and exploiters
who despoiled Africa and ruined our
racial heritage. They taught white
God, white Christ, white heaven.
white angels, and brotherhood of
man that was not a brotherhood.
Our movement has It's own religion,
Such a religion alone may be trusted
to send to Africa missionaries who
have Afrfca's interests at heart It
breaches God az being, not as q
creature But in so far az Il inter-
prets Him through the image OF a
creature, It shows Him made In onr
inm ge--black.
also written books and treatises
seeking to prove that Christ Himself
WHOSE divinity we acknowledge
was not OF the race the white man has
claimed for Him They declare that
He was a negro. But such things are
OF the past. My eyes are on the fu-
ture."