Phoenix tribune., 1922-11-18
EQUAL and EXACT
justice The ONLY
DEMAND OF BLACKS
Especial to The Tribune)

c. Wells, the famous author and Jour
nalist, advocates unified world con
troll of world affairs, not the League
of Nations" but gigantic combina
tion of international groups on a scale
and with motives startling in their
sweeping candor for greater human
liberty and Justice; Lenin of Russia
has been consigned the duty by the
Bolshevists, of telling of the progress
of world revolution" while Will Ir.
win, noted writer of Chicago, tells of
the next great war;" in which the
yellow people of the East will cross
arms with the great white races of
the West.
Added to this turmoil of ideas and
conflagration of prophesies, is the
Stoddard alarm of the Rising Tide of
Color" and the unQuestioned restless
ness of people of African descent in
all parts of the world, including the
great millions of Africa itself.
In the United States of America,
where there are practically fifteen
millions of human beings touched by
the bronzing glow of Africa's sun, dis.
content disappointment and disgust
are entwined with the emotions of
determination, defiance and hatred.
These dark skinned Americans, who in
their simple faith, have. for decade
after decade put their trust in God
and the gilded promises of certain Of
the whites, have had rude awaken
ing.
They have discovered that "all is
not gold that glitters." They haye
been disfranchised, segregated lynch
ed and murdered The thrills of pa
triotism have been turned into hollow
mockery by the deeds of the unjust
Hope in the possibilities of political
opportunities, backed by the honey
toned words of the silver-tongued ora
tor, has been transformed into the
sting of hypocricy and treachery.
In such a mood, and attitude Of
mind, fertile soil is found for strange
and radical doctrines. Dismayed by
the failure of all that has gone be-
fore, these people quite naturally are
turning their eyes to new lighthouses
of hope, and. directing their thoughts
to the appeals of newer chieftons.
Overt row of Injustice
Colored Americans have but one
desire: an all-united movement on
their part is to bring about a realiza-
ton of that desire-the overthrow of
injustice. The mockery of fair play
and justice to which they are subject
ed, is making of them race of cynics
This is true in all parts of the land,
and among all the various classes of
the entire group. 1t is fraught with
seriousness, because sects and isms
from other parts of the world, where
color prejudice is an unknown guam
tity, are taunting these black peoples
with unanswerable arguments about
the conditions, and treachery in Amer
lea.
1--WE are just biding our time" said
one of the adherents of the very radi-
cal group. For what?" he was asked
Until the dawning of the day when
all these hypocrites will be swept in
to the ocean by the onward march of
the legions of Justice" Sounds tragi-
cally poetical He would go no fur
ther in detailed explanation, but it is
known to be a sacred belief that the
day is coming when some great force,
somewhere, somehow, will bring about
new order of things.
These adherents to the new faith"
are eloquent in their ability to ex-
press what is happening throughout
the world and what is going to hap
pen. They point with pride to the
swift overthrow OF governments
throughout the world in the last few
years, and say that the time is COM
ing in America when, particularly in
the South, where black people are de-
MED the most, there will be a gigantic
upheaval of some kind that will de-
stroy forever the influence of that
class of whites who have held the
yoke of oppression on the black mans
neck until it has almost choked him.
''This hellishness cannot last forever. T"
they say, and with that faith they
journey onward, reading, thinking,
planning, working.