The daily worker., 1924-08-11

too long on the churches and the So
called Christians. The Negroes, he
said, must now try to manage their
own affairs and adjust their troubles
themselves outside Of the church.
DR.. jay J. Peters Of Chicago said
that France is a little better to the
Negro than either England or Amer
lea. He said he hoped to see the time
when he could take up the sword
against England. He saw not so much
need Of taking the matter to the
churches. The Negroes would wait
long if they depended on Jesus to
come and bring them bread and
honey.
Teach Children Fear Of Negro.
G. H. Bryant Of Guatemala spoke
interestingly on the matter in which,
he said, the British prisons are used
in keeping down the masses of Ne
groes with deadly effect. He com
planned that the British had taken
the lion as their symbol in their coat
of arms, whereas the lion was only
found in Africa and belonged by right
to the Negro. "And the Prince of
Wales" said Mr.. Bryant, us touring
around With a great ostrich plume in
his hat, thus taking away from the
Negro the symbol Of princes that
should be worn by the Negro" He
declared that the black troops from
Africa had saved France from ex-
termination in the war, and that the
Negro now has nothing.
D. H. Kyle of Clarksburg, West
Virginia, said the white man had
established the principle of SUPERIOR
ity and inferiority as the solution Of
the race problem, and that the Khan
had come and changed the terms to
read white supremacy" He said the
white people had so trained their
children to think Of the Negro as
bogy, so that when a Negro walks
along the street a white child upon
seeing him will often run away.
Mr.. Kyle spoke Of the education
methods employed to teach white
superiority, and advocated the adop-
tion Of like methods to teach the op-
posite view to Negroes, so that we
will be group of people who believe
there is nothing sacred about the
white color. "This idea of looking up
to the other fellow has been poured
into us, and it must be poured out
again." he said.
Sees Blood of Races Mixed
The speaker called attention to the
increasing poportion of Mulatto pop
ulation, since the emancipation in
1868 as evidence that the whites
themselves seek to mix the blood of
the races. He recited incidents of
Negro teachers who, because they
dared to mention such matters, were
told to get out and seek other employ
ment.
| A delegate from Pennsylvania gave
an exceedingly interesting talk on the
manner in which religion is used to
subjugate the Negro. "In the King
James version of the Bible" he said,
you will find every idea to hold the
Negro down" Yet he was not against
Christianity and believed in some
parts of the Bible-"especiall the
part which says that Princes shall
come out of Egypt" The speaker said
he was very skeptical as a result Of
the fact that the "the white man was
the first to teach religion to the
Negro" The Negro, he thought, must
have some new system of religion.
No Hostility to White Man
The French, he said, first used re-
ligion to subjugate the Negro, and the
next blow would be to exterminate
him.
America, this speaker believed, sis
absolutely done with the Negro. She
has used the Negro. and now she is
ready to get shet of him." This was
given in a few words what is practic-
ally the gist of the whole philosophy
Of the Garvey organization. "But
America has used the Negro within
her own bounds" he said. The only
policy and the only thing that can
see is to prepare a place for our
selves. We have no hostility to the
white man. Give them America if
they are willing to help US to getFa
country for ourselves in Africa"
If you add to this the constantly
repeated statements of delegates
that they believe that ninety-nine out
Of every hundred white men in Amer
lea, "inwardly If not outwardly", ac-
cept the doctrine of the Klu Klux
Klan in regard to the Negro, you have
just about found the basis of the
peculiar nationalistic philosophy of
this anti-clerical, anti-imperialist or
ganization of Negro working people
which drives It to the incredible stand
against fighting the Klan murder or
ganization which kills, tortures and