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

the Khan, because 1t gives them some
thing to write about every day so that
they can sell their papers for cents
the Universal Negro Improvement AS.
ISOLATION does not adopt that attitude.
Our attitude is this. That lynching
must be stopped. Our attitude is this
Ihat unfairness and injustice to Ne.
groes must stop. Our attitude is this:
/ That Negroes should be free and ind..
, pendent. When those things happen we
are ready to go out of business. II
that attitude can be adopted tomorrow
morning, If Africa can be freed tomor.
row and segregation and Jim Crowism
can cease tomorrow, then the Uni.
Negro Improvement Association would
have absolutely no cause for continue.
ing its existence. But there are certain
organizations and individuals who Of.
tend that they would like to see lynch
ing stop, yet they arc praying that an
other lynching will take place SO that
they can beg for more money to carry
on tn egood work Of the organization.
10 you know that If lynching should
stop tomorrow morning certain organi
cations would feel very uncomfortable
because they would not know what to
10 or by what means to raise public
subscription Or arouse public senti.
ment to insure philanthropic contribu
lions to pay their salaries?
AS for the Dyer Anticipating bill
that is worth a million dollars to GER
tain folks. Why, it is a gold mine Oh
which you can collect ut this time for
certain folks, and they will do every.
thlng out OF pretense to keep up the
tight. They say they want to pass the
Dyer Bill, but underneath they do no;
want the Dyer Bill passed, Decauso -.
1t is passed it will cut off the revenue
they arc depending OH to carry them
OH Tor another few years Let us an
alyze these things. Any man, any move
ment, any government tlrat has great
pubic issues or great public measures
TO hanulc-iSSucS and measures that
Affect vitality an individual, race Or
nntion-dO not go about it in a way of
advertising. They adopt an attftuu.
OF diplomacy; they try to put over that
which they desire by diplomacy an.
not by public advertisement or public
n0toricty. That is to say, if England
wants to get the better Of France, the
premier Of England is not going to adj
" vcrtisc in all the papers Of England
or all the papers Of France what he is
going to do to France.
He adopts method of diplomacy
and tries to put over that which he dc
sire to put over France, and when he
mas put 1t over he advcrtises it TO the
world and the world is welcome TO
The information. That is the way -
telligent dividuals-intclligen states
men go ABOUT matters that affect the
nation or the race. But what do our
friends OIL the other side of this Nc.
gro movement do? Tire first thing they
do is to advertise to the world what
they are going to 40, and thus get the
other people better informed then they
themselves are, which means that
they will never be able to do what they
want done. 1t comes to this: that It
is either ignorance on the part .
those who had such movements--ophn
hypocrisy--hypocrisy in saying that
they want to better conditions, when
in their hearts they know they do not
desire it.
Now what can George Harris, 4
puny significant Negro who, l believe
can hardly support himself, do with ii
big organization like the I[u KluX
Khan, that he himself admits was SO
powerful at one time in the history OF
this country rs to be able to diSfrun.
chlse the Negro; was so powerful as
to bring into existence jim Crow laws;
was so powerful us to bring into eX-
istence laws for segregation; Was 81
powerful as to be able to deprive Il
whole race Of its political rights. What
can lonely Negro do with such an
organization that is bent Oh such plnn.
Of devilment? Commdh sense would
Suggest to him that the thing to do Is
not to antagonizc the organization but
to adopt a method of diplomacy to
: get around the thing, so as to prevent
the thing from doing the harm that it
intends, rather than to aggravato and
iprovoke the thing to do you worse
harm than it intended.
Now, as said said here last Sunday
night, l do not care about the Ku
KluX Khan; for that matter I don't
care about any folks in the world but
the 40O,000,000 Negroes in the world,
but l realize this: that Mt the time we
have our hand in the lions mouth.
and ii you have any sense it is your
business to gradually ease that hand
out, and then when you are out and
you are far away from the lion you
can make up your mind to get even
with the lion, but while you are in the
lions reach, if you have one grain Of
sense, you will adopt those methods
that will preserve your life and let the
lion go.
! MOVEMENT MUST BE LED BY !
! 1NTELLIGENCE.
: a movement like the Universal Ne
gro Improvement Association must be
led by intelligence; must be led by
diplomacy; and-I say this: it does not
pay us in America to offend any OF
ganized group Of which men because
we are still a dependent race. Let me
tell you this: that every second white