Phoenix tribune., 1922-01-14
WORLD DOMINATION
Chief DESIRE OF BLACKS
SAYS CHICAGO EDITOR
(Associated Negro Press)

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the darker people of the world up
to?" That question is being asked
by whites everywhere. 1t is the un-
derlying thought of the disarmament
conference in Washington, and has
been from the beginning.
Plainly the white races of the
world are deeply concerned. 1t has
been widely stated that the boldness
of President Harding's utterances in
Birmingham was due to the clear Wis
ion of fact that the world cannot go
on and oppress darker people.
Now comes the Chicago Tribune
seeing "Red and Black" as attested
in one of the most significant edi-
torials ever published by daily news
paper. 1t is plain from the trend of
the editorial, taking France as basis
of justice, that the Tribune fears,
that after all, what the dark people
of the world desire most, and par
ticularly certain elements among black
people is World Domination" There
has never been a bolder, albeit, far
fetched intimation. Says the Tri-
Lune:
"Rouge Et- Noir"
when the America Negro novelist
and social philosopher Dubois whose
writings came to the attention of Chi
cago whites as the result Of Negro
outbreak of fanaticism on the south
side, resulting in murder, was in
France as a delegate to the Pan-Afri-
can congress, he found that the French
attitude toward the African blacks
was injurious in one respect. 1t
granted the Negro social, political,
and mental equality, but it insisted
upon capitalism.
'The French accepted the equality
of black and white but they did not
want the blacks to be red. They
trained intelligent Senegalese SO in
capitalism that between a black man
of social standing there was no diff
ference of opinion regarding proper
ty rights.
"To Dubois this was an injustice to
Negro traditions In Africa the black
understood communism, the common
ownership and use of resources. The
black had found one powerful friend
among the whites, the French. Un-
der the French a Black nation was be-
ing created in Sengal. Senegal given
equality, accepts as one item of equal
ity French military conscription.
1.-THE French white youth and the
Senegal black youth go to the military
authorities on arriving at military age
and are taken into active service
This is one of the means by which
La France Noire is being created
When a black boy from Senegal has
been through the same military train
ing as a white boy from Normany he
is a soldier, military Frenchman
and he has the same standing in
Paris that he would have among his
own people in Africa.
"All this is good, according to Du-
bois, but it is bad that along with
these social recognitions should come
the development of capitalism which
although it denied race distinctions
should impose economic ones.
when Mr.. H. G.. Wells went to the
racial Negro club in Washington and
met the intelligencia, including Du
bois, he found this thought permeat
ing the American Negro opinion. A
young man commenting upon the
| Senegal sitaution asked me. Wells
''Why not a black Napolean?" Mr.
Wells, who is an international chame
leon is as good a white Englishmar
as ever drew breath, thought that the
young man lacked something in the
way of manners supposed to prevail
in Americans.
Rouge ct noir is the American
Negro idea and it is the idea which
is being spread as widely as it cal
be, to the CONSERVATION of American
Negro conservatives. France recog
nizes the artistic mental, social, mill
tary and political qualities and in
equalities of her black citizens
"This is not enough for our owl
Negro intellectuals.
Lafayette not Leine we ar
i here"
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