Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1922-08-18
MARCUS CARNEY DEFENDS HIS POSITION
IN THE FAMOUS XII KLUX KHAN INTERVIEW

NLUk klAW INTERVIEW
Mr.. Harris writes as fol ,ows:
head-Garvey ignorant Of Negro his
tory, declares harris.
Prominent New York Leade.. Of His
Mace Says "Alien" Misrepresents
Them Damnably.
George w. Harris is Alderman fer
the 21st District (Harlem.) He was
graduated from Harvard in 1909,
studied for'two years in its law school
and OH the advice of Booker r. Wash
ingtOn took up journalism. After an
apprenticeship with the Boston Trans.
cript he became editor of the New
York News, q leading Negro newspap.
err
BY George w. Harris.
There has been nothing done by one
Of their race since their emancipation
that has angercd and alarmed Negro
citizens more deeply than the recent
effort Of Marcus Carney an alien anu
Il native of Jamaica, b. w. l., to form
an alliance with the Ku Klux Khan.
Carney misreprescnts not only the
attitude of native-born cdlored Amcrf.
cans, but rs per cent. Of the foreign.
born when he surrenders to the impe.
rial wizard Of this bloody and bigotcl
band of outlaws. There is no objection
to Garvcy and his followers choosing
Africa as their adopted home. but
there is objection to his pandcring to
the prcjudices Of bigOts and traitors op
posed to the principles of the republic.
He would sell the birthright of $4,000
600 native-born loyal Americans.
Garvcy being Il foreigner, does not
know that the Ku KluX Khan is the
same organization that outraged the
mothers Of the present generation of
colorcd Americans, murdered it's faith
ers, desccrated the black dead ant
their graves, and coming into powe.
IN reconstruction days, nulified emun
cipation, established jim-crow cars and
riveted political Acknowledgement up
OH the black race in the South.
RESENTS GARVEY'S SLUR.
When Garyey says this is not the
colored citizens country in the Same
sense that it is the country of every
other loyal American, black or whltu
he knows nothing Of the history of the
race IN this country. He does nor
know that black men played vital
T..
ment of this continent, that there
were forty black men with Balboa
when he discovered the Pacific Ocean
and that Balboa found tribe of black
mon then living OH the shores of South
America. He does not know that black
men were with all the Spanish discov.
orcrS and eX ,':'rtrS, With COrtez when
he went into M,Nic, sLd with Corona
do when he went to Kansas in 1871.
He does not know that colored men
helped establish the first settlement. in
jamestown in 1907 and that Africans
were with Ponce dc Leon at st. huglla
tine in 1865; that Etevanico, the black
explorer, with three Spaniards, eX.
plored the present State Of Texas. He
does not know that black men were
and Indian Wars; that q black man
one OF that expedition; that a black
was with Daniel Boone in Kentucky III
l774 and gave up his life rs the first
man, Crispus Attucks, was the first to
shed his blood for American Indepen.
dence in the Boston Massacre in 1774
that Peter Salem, n black man, was
the first TO die in the Battle of Bunk
CT Hill at the hands of the British.
Major Pitcarin; that black man by
the name OF York was vital part CT
the Lewis and Clark expedition to ths
great Northwest III 1907 and that
fork's dry river was named after him
He does not know that black soldier !,
were paid tributes by George Washing.
ION and his generals in 1776 ana o,
General Jackson for their defense OF
New Orleans in the War Of 1912, anu
that black sailors were with Commo-
dorc Perry in the Battle of Lake Eriee
In 1872; that black men were with
fremont when he discovered gold in
California In 1910; that black men to
the number Of $4,000, taken from the
trenches and the farms Of the Rebels
IN coats OF blue turned the tide for the
Union and destruction Of slavery.
CITES HISTORY OF BLACKS
lie does not know that the black
americans have played this vital part
in American history from its pre-
historic beginnings down to the plan.
ing or the Stars and Stripes ut the
North Pole by Commander Peary with
ms black companion, Mat Henson, by
his side in 1909. He surely cannot
know of the 10th Calvary in the In
dian Wars with General Custer nor Of
their black companions at San Juan
Hill III 1898 with Theodore Rooseven
nor does he remember the service OF
the Hell Fighters" the "Buffaloes"