Richmond planet., 1923-03-03
Fellow Men Of the Negro Race Greet

ing
w. E. Burghardt Du Bois, the Negro
'misleader,' who is editor of the
Crisis" the official organ of the Nat
ional Association for the Advancement
of certain" Colored People situated
at 20 Fifth Avenue. New York City,
has again appeared in print. This time
he appears as author of an article in
the February Century" Magazine un-
der the caption, Back to Africa" in
which he makes the effort to criticize
Marcus Garvey, the Universal Negro
Improvement Association and the
Black Star Line This unfortunate
mu.atto," who bewails every day the
drop of Negro blood in his veins. be-
ing sorry that he is not Dutch or
French, has taken upon himself the
responsibility of criticizing and con-
demning other people while holding
himself up as the social "uuapproach
able" and the great Il AM" os the Ne
gro race. But we will see who Mr. Du
Bois, is in that he invites his own
characterization So we will therefore
let him see himself as others see him.
FAT, BLACK, UGLY MAN"
In describing Marcus Garvey in the
article before mentioned, he referred
to him as n little, fat black man:
ugly but with intelligent eyes and a
big head" Now. what does Du Bois
mean by ugly? This so-cailed professor
of Harvard and Berlin ought to know
by now that the standard OF beauty
within race is not arrived at by com
parison with another race; as. for in
stance If we were to desire to find out
the standard Of beauty among the
japanese people we would not judge
them from the Anglo-SaXon yiewpoll+.
but from the japanese. How he arrjV-
es at his conclusion that Marcus Gar
vey is ugly, being a Negro, is impossi
BILE to determine. in that if there is
any ugliness in the Negro race it would
he reflected more through Du Bois
than Marcus Garvey, in that he him
self tells us that he is little Dutch, d
little French, and dozen other things.
Why. in fact the man is monstros-
ity. So, If there is any ugliness it is on
the part Of Du Bois and not on the part
OF the "little fat, black man with the
big head" because an this description
is typical Of the African. But this only
goes to show how much hate Du Bois
has for the black blood in his veins.
Anything that is black, to him, is ugly
is hideous, is mOnstrous, and this is
why in 1917 he had but the lightest OF
colored people in his office, when one
could hardly tell whether it was Il
white show or a colored vaudeville NJ
was running at Fifth avenue. 1t was
only after the Universal Negro I'm
provement Association started to
pounce upon him and his National AS
sociation for the Advancement Of Col
ored People that they admitted that
colored element into the association
that could be distinguished as Negro
and it was during that period of time
that Weldon Johnson and Pickens got
look-in. But even Pickens must hay,
been ugly for Du Bois. for they
made 1T so warm for him up to Il few
months ago that he had to go a-hunt
ing for another job, the time when
Marcus Garvey was willing to well
come him into the Universal Negro I'm
provement Association.
DU BOIS AND WHITE COMPANY.
1t is no wonder that Du Bois seeks
the company of Write people, because
he hates blacks as being ugly. That is
why he likes to dance with white pep
pie and dine with them and sometimes
sleep with them because from his way
OF seeing things all that Is black is
ugly and all that Is white is beautiful
Yet this professor, who sees ugliness
in being black essays to be leader
of the Negro people and has been try
ing for over fourteen years to deceive
them through his connection with the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People Now what does
he mean by advancing colored people
If he hates black so much? In what |
direction must we expect his advance
ment? We can conclude in no other
way than that it is i'm the direction of
losing our black identity and becom-
ing. as nearly as possible the lowest
whites by assimilation and miscegena.
tion.
This probably is accountable for the
bleaching process and thp hair Straight