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

DECEPTION AND HYPOCRISY
7, show the decer..:on and hypocri.
sly OF Du Bots he pretends. in the
above-quoted paragraphs from his arti-
Gle as if he were not thoroughly ac-
quainted with the problem in the West
Indies when, in another paragraph,
he states the following:
This is the West Indian solution
OF the Negro problem:
1.-THE mulattoes are virtually regarl
cd and treated as whites, with the as
sumption that they will, by continued
white iRtermarriage, bleach out their
color as soon as possible. There sd.
vive. therefore few white ColoniaJs
save newcomers. who are not Of Negro
descent In some more or less remote
ancestor. Mulattoes intermarry, then,
largely with the whites and the So
called disappearance of the color line
Is the disappearance of the line be-
tween the whites and mulattoes and
not between +St whites and the blacks.
Thus the privileged and exploiting
group in the West Indies is composed
OF whites and mulattoes, while the
poorly paid and ignorant proletarla,.
are the blacks, forming a peasantry
vastly in the majority, but socially,
politically and economically helpless
and nearly voiceless. This peasantry
moreover, has been systematically de
prived of its natural leadership, De
cause the black boy who showed initi
alive or who accidentally gained
wealth or education soon gained the
recognition of the mulatto group
and might be incorporated with them.
particularly if he married one of them
Thus his interest and efforts were iden
tilted with the mulatto white group.
This is the kind of settlement that
Du Bots speaks of; and this is the
kind Of settlement that he wants i'm
the United States Of America. Du Bots
you shall not have it!
CARNEY CHALLENGES DU BOTS
Du Bots says that "Garvey had no
thorough education and very hazy
idea of the technique OF civilization. >"
Du Bots forgets that Garvey has chal-
| lenged him oyer a dozen times to IN
tellectual combat. and he has for as
many times failed to appear. Garvey
will back his education against that
of Du Bots at any time in the day
from early morning to midnight and
whether it be in the classroom or oil
the public platform will make him
look like dead duck on frozen lake
IS DU BOIS EDUCATED?
! Du Bots seems TO believe that the
monopoly of education is acquired by
being a graduate of Fisk, Harvard
and Berlin. Education is not so much
the school that one has passed through
/ but the use one makes of that which
he has learned.
If Du Bois' education fits him for
no better service than being a iackey
for good white people. then 1t were bet
ter that Negroes were not educated
Du Bots forgets that the reason so
much noise was made over him and
his education was because he was
among the first experiments" made
by white people on colored men alony
the lines of higher education No one
experimental with Marcus Garvey =,
no one has to look upon him with sur
prise that he was able to master the
classics and graduate from a universe.
Ity.
Du Bots is a surprise and wonder to
the good white people who experiment
cd with him. but to us moderns he is
Just an ordinary intelligent Negro
one of those who does not know what
he wants.
THE MAN WHO LIES.
Du Bots is such liar when It comes