Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1922-08-18

gold. Where is the Ncgro's portion Of
| the gold that was discovered? (Laugh-
ter and applause.) The learned schol.
| ar tells us that the Negro wos with
| everybody, but he does not tell us whu
was with tire Negro. Do you know
what 1t means to be with man? 1t is
! quite different thing being with I.
man or having that man Golbe with
you. II employ you to do some work
\ for me, after you have performed that
\ work discharge or dismiss you and
am no longer obligated to you. The
great graduate Of Harvard-the great
alderman Gas he calls himself) tells
us IN nearly every instance that the
Negro was with Columbus and Balboa:
the Negro was with this or that pei
son, but he fa:is to prove to us where
the Negro established his claim g,
equal with The other fellow when he
established his claim
| Now, If two individuals 20 out in
conquest on equal terms, whatsoever
is conquered is divided equally at that
! time by the conquerors. If Negroes
came with Columbus then it was the
Negroes right at the time when Colum
bus planted his flag for the monarch.
OF Spain, to have planted his flag for
the monarchy that he represented.
| (Applause.) IF this great Harvard
: graduate will go back to history ne
Will find that no auxiliary of war ever
| shared equal rights with those fol
whom he served except by the g.me..
ostty OF those whom they served. If
l employ you as an auxiliary of war 10
Tight my war, if there was no under.
standing that the spoils of war
should be divided equally among us,
would pay you for your services as an
auxiliary Of war and there Is no lnvt,
obligation. And this man who claims
to be so educated and claims to be Il
leader OF the race cannot see the diff
terence between man being with ..u
other as Il Scrvant-as q lackey-aS an
auxiliary Of war Or what not, and tho
individual by whose initiative the con
quest is made or the expedition 5
carried out.
He tells us about a Negro being
with Peary at the North Pole. We all
know a Negro was with Peary ut the
North Pole and that that Negro was
paid by Peary rs an employee or labor
er to work for him. When Peary dis
gated to that Negro because that Ne
gro had no hand in fitting out the
expedition, nor did not stand half the
expenses of Pcary's voyage to explore
the North Pole. If that Negro hau
shared in the expenses and shared in
everything for the discovery Of the
North Pole then he would have had an
equal right in the discovery OF the
North Pole. And similarly in the dis
covery of America. If the Negro who
was with Columbus, rs Harris makes
us believe, had paid part of the eXpens
es of the expedition; If he had shared
equally with Columbus the cost Of the
expedition; If they had entered into a
partnership for the discovery Of the
New World, when the New World was
discovered then the Negro would have
laid as much claim to the discovery
OF America rs Christopher Columbus
did. I
l am not saying these things Of my
own opinion; / am saying these thing .
because they are facts. and the white
man looks ut facts and nothing else.
You cannot run this world by scnti-
mcnt. 1t is all we'll for you to say a
Negro discovered America; it is all
very well for yoM and to say Ne
gro fired tire first shot at Bunker Hill;
that Negro blood was first shed a.
Bunker Hill. but was it the Negro on
his own volition who instigatcd the
War OF Independence? Was it on tho
Nccroa account that the War frr indie
pendence was initiated? The Negro
was only a secondary consideration H..
the great ideal Of white men to free
themselves from Great Britain.
Men become possessors Of the lana
by conquest or negotiation. Now this
Harvard graduate will have to show
mo at what time a Negro of his owl
account started out to discover Amcri-
ca and had discovered America and I, S.
tablished his flag by right OF conquest.
When he can prove thnt to me, then
Will say to him that America Is the
black mans country and not the white
mans country. But he will have |.
60 long way proving to the 95, 0OO,-
600 Write folks that such is the case
what Harris writes sounds we'll III
sentiment. l can write just as beauti-
1ul an article rs he did to appeal 20
the sentiment and the emotion of tho
people, but we have been living CT,
sentiment and emotion all the time.
: THESE so-called leaders Of ours nave
fed US up with emotion and fed lis up
] with flattery and where do we find
ourselves now In this twentieth cen
Jury? Being deprived OF every right
as men. Flattery has taken us no.
where; flattery has not abolished the
jim Grow cars; flattery has not abol-
! 1shed segregation: flattery has not
abolished lynching. Writing these
! beautiful things about the past as far
as we are concerned is not going TO
give lis the consideration that we want
now. If l knew that writing beautiful
things would give us the consideration
we want, then 1 would write pages and
volumes Of such beautiful things, bus
Know that after l have written pages
ana volumes of such beautiful things
: II o..