Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1921-03-12
I|R. JOHNSON WRITES
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,g the South African Constitution
III in tho House of Commons,
beral minded English politicians
alked ut the comnfittal of oil native
Sights to tho Beers. The Primo
mister, Mr.. Asquith salved his con-
cience by saying no hoped 1t was
! tfly for a time.
While tho opposition, the Tory
arty, led by Mr.. Balfour, went all
,ngtnH IN agreement with the Beers
i robbing the natives of their Gus
! binary rights as British subjects. l
end you u cutting / then made from
ghe London Times, where Mr.. Bal
our said: Il deny that it is intended
SO on to tho endD.
The daily life of such cities as
Philadolph il, Boston. New York and
! providence. where equality is prac-
I iced, give the lie completely to tho
! sscrtions of this wooden-headed,
oggy English politician. He has
ever been anything but n third-rate
POLITICIAN. In his younger days he
Vas SO effeminate that in Parliament
u hey dubbed him Fanny He gained
|&fllce and prestige because he was
: nephew to the late Lord Salisbury.
He is past his best days. At general
Elections he frequently is LETT strand
I'D without constituency.
n When Booker II. Washington was
East In London, some of the news
baperS who contended for the best
fcent in U. S. A. regarded Mr.
81need, sycophant, betraYing the viril-
NIX omit ~ f,r
! Of pottage; but Balfour hung on his
livery word, followed HIM about and
delighted himself with his views.
FORBIDDEN TO PRACTICE LAW.
/ Perhaps 1t is not known in tho
! Western world that at Cape Town,
scolored men are absolutely forbidden
i 10 practice law. SHUTS and his Bar
aAss%c; ation, many OF them men born
lin Holland forbid the native to go
Pinto a court to earn diving. The
same is true in the Southern Nigeria
Both legal and medical men must be
white. And the recent land grabbing
&il Nhodesia under process of law,
where the poor native does not own
Sand has to pay rent for the few
1 fec: of land on which he builds his
! hu, or kroal.
The robbery In RhodeS'a Is n crime
in the sight Of high heaven and a
stink III the nostril Of men OF African
blood all over the planet earth. Texas
and Mississippi can not show any
thing moro drastic than the refusal
10 practice law. Only think OF the
enormous wealth that has been robbed
from the natives Of South Africa
White adventurous, poor and even
destitute, have gone out there and
piled up thor millions Descendants
OF native CHI +cfs have either. like
Otoway's eldest son, been imprisoned
CT like Lobcngula'S, who died a con-
Sumpt!vc in n coal mine in England.
been driven out of South Africa.
Then tho quality of the. adventur-
ers and usurpers dominating the poor
black man on HIS own sc'l IFS farce.
Think OF tho pricst-ridden, efIete
Portuguese dominating an African
c!ViliZat'On,. more vail and active
than themselves. While 1T rs true in
South Africa, rs in the interior native
chfcfs have not yca learned to COM
bine, the old chiefs are bong suc-
ceedct by younger mon who have
been to Europe, men who know and
whom Mr.. Garveys plans arc de-
signed to teach that all things polit-
Zeal arc possible to those who unite
with each other.
The native chiefs i'm the interior
of Africa, If united and had arms for
ther men, could even now drive out
the white usurpers. Mr.. Garvey's
dream is not so clj'merical as the
white press and Jealous colorei men
make out. why should the immoral
bankrupt Belgian dominate Africans
better than themselves. Think Of the
criminal record, the trail of blood, Of
murdcrous outrage following along
behind this one people.
THINK of the Carving Up Of Al, lea
by white men who at first crept tim
idly into different lands saying, I'VE
come to teach you of Christ" Next
came the man with the national flag
and the doom WAS scaled Last Sep-
TENDER the English papers sent me
from London ridiculed both Dubois
and Carney as pair Of cranks. The
Daily Mall book reviewer alleged
that the former wrote n little book
and sent it over to Europe claiming
the origin of the late war was In
Africa and showed it. was clear
case Of the fly on the coach wheel
(see me raise oil this dust) as every
schoolboy in Europe knows that the
las. war. was OF purely European
opsg.n and n mere corollary OF the
Franco Prussaan War of 1871-72.
The press laughed over Garvey's
words In Madison Square, but the
English laughed over Arab Pasha's
War and said he was only a barber"
but the kick Arabi put into Egyptian
affairs rs still there, just as England
is giving them constitution.
llBut colored men fight each other
too much. Let us have peace. We,
are healing tho breach the noble
white man has made in our ranks
then shoulder to shoulder. Much to
be thankful for! Sixty years ago we
were property; cattle in the market.
But now-Gerald Massey, IN English
poet has written:
He gave us only over fish, flesh, fowl,
Dominion absolute,
But man over man He made not