Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-03-03

was born on the northern coast OF
Jamaica in 1887. He was a poor black
boy, his father dying in the almshouse.
, He received little training in the
church of England Grammar School,
and then learned the trade of printing
working for years as foreman of a
printing plant. Then he went to Europe
and wandered about England and
France working and observing until
he finally returned to Jamaica. He
found himself facing stone wall He
was poor, he was black. Ire had no
chance for university education. ne
mad no likely chance for preferment
in any line, but could work as an arti-
san at small wage for the rest Of his
life"
Now let us copsilar Marcus GarNcy
in comparison with Du Bots. w. f. Is.
Du Bots was born in Great harrington
Mass, in 1868. Some wealthy white
people became interested in him and
assisted in his education. They sent
him to Fisk University from Fisk &c
Harvard where he graduated as a coli.
mencement orator. He raised part OF
the money for his later education By
giving recitals in white summer
hotels. Where he was born-that is.
in Great Darlington Mass-he had
early association with white surround
ings. He was brought up with white
boys and girls of the better type anu
more aristocratic class as found in
rural towns. He had no love for the
poor, even poor white in his neighbor-
hood, although he was but a
poor, penniless and humble Negro. As
proof of that he wrote the following
on the tenth page of his book known
as Dark Water" II greatly despised
the poor Irish and South Germans who
shaved in the mills (that Is. the mi Is
OF the town in which he was born,)
and 1 annexed myself with the rich
and well-to-do as my natural compan-
IONS" Marcus Garveys father, who
was also named Marcus Garvey was
one of the best known men in the par
ish in which he was born, st. Ann.
Jamaica. For number of years he
held prominent positions In the parish
and was regarded as one of the most
independent black men on the island,
owning property that ran into thous-
ands Of pounds. Through his own reck
lessneSs he lost his property and he
came poor. His poverty did not in any
way affect Marcus Garvey Jr., in that
the mother of the latter assumed the
responsibility that the father failed to
assume, and he therefore got an early
education, not through charity, as din
Du Bots, but through the support OF
loving mother. Marcus Garvey Jr
never knew the consideration of a faith
er, because at the time when he was
born his father had already lost all he
had, and had shifted his obligation to
his children to the shoulders of their
mother. With the assistance of Marcus
Garvey got from his mother he educat
ed himself, not only in Jamaica but
Travelled throughout South and Cen
trail America. the West Indies and
Europe, where for several years he
studied in completing the education
that he had already laid the founda
ton for in his native home All that
was not done by the Charity of any
one. but by Marcus Garyey himself
and the support he got from his moth
er. While, on the other hand, Du Bots
starting even from the elementary
stage of his education up to his gradu
alton from. Harvard and his passing
through Berlin. got all that through
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white people. Admitting that Marcus
GarVey was born poor. he never en-
couraged a, hatred for the people of his
kind or class, but to the contrary de-
voted his life to the improvement ard
higher development of that class with
in the race which has been struggling
under the disadvantage that Du Bots
himself portrays in his article.
COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO MEN
Marcus Garvey was born in 1887;
Du Bots. was born in 1868. That shows
that Du Bots is old enough to be Mar
Gus Garvey's father. But what has hap
pened? With the fifty-five years of Du
Bots life we find him still living on
the patronage Of good white people,
and with the thirty-six years of Mar
Gus Garvey (who was born poor and
whose father. according to Du Bots
died in the poor house) he is able tn
at least pass over the charity Of white
people and develop an Independent pro
gram originally financed by himself
to the extent Of thousands of dollars,
now taken up by the Negro peoples
themselves. Now which of tire two is
poorer in character and i'm manhood?
The older man who had all these op-
portunities and still elects to he a para
site. living off the good will of another
race or the younger man who had SUI
ficient self-respect to make to
do for himself even though in his effort
he constructs a dirty brick building
from which he can send out his propa
ganda on race seIf-reliance and self-re
spect.
MOTIVE OF DU BOIS.
To go back to the motive Of Du Bois
in the advocacy Of the National AssO.
citation for the Advancement of Color
ed People is to expose him for wha.
he Is. The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
| executives have not been honest
! enough to explain to the people of the
Negro race their solution for the Ne
gro problem because they are afraid
that they would be turned down in
their intention. They would make Il
: appear as If they are interested in
the adv0 ucenent of the Negro people
Of America. when in truth. they arc
but interested in the subiugation o:
! certain tvres Of the Negro race and
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