Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-05-03

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| of his own?
Would you help morally or other
wise to bring about such possibility!
Do you believe that the Negro shoulo
be encouraged to aspire to the h1ghes'
industrial and commercial positions In
the countries of the white man IN com
petition with him and to his exclus'
| ion?
Do YOU believe that the Negro
should be encouraged to regard ana
respect the rights of all other races
in the same manner as other races
would respect the rights of the Negro?
He quotes further:
The pamphlets include one of the
worst articles recently written by
Southern white man advocating IN.
deportation of American Negroes to
Liberia and several articles by GarveE
and his friends. From one OF Carney
articles we abstract one phrase:
The white race can best help the
Negro by telling him the truth, and not
by flattering him into believing thaI
he is as good as any white man.
Not even Tom Dixon or Ben TIL
man or the hatefulest enemies OF the
Negro have ever stopped to more VIC
ious campaign than Marcus Garvey,
sane or insane is carrying on. tie Is
not attacking white prejudice, ne is
grovelling before it and applaudlng II;
his only attack in on men OF his own
race who are striving for freedom;
his only contempt is for Negroes; ms
only threats are for black blood.
If the statements as quoted by this
distinguished scholar are true and Mar
Gus Garvey has really proven traitor
to racial interests in this country, he
will be "hoist upon his own petard'
without any regard to what DR.. Du
Bots may say. He, however emphasize
es his disgust and contempt by urg
ing that the sentence announced
against Garvey in New York stand
Granting that Carney is an migrate and
deserving of public castigation in the
arena of fair-play, can DR.. w. E. B. Du
Bots afford from his lofty position as
a leader to endeavor to influence a de
cision of a court in the matter of the
trial and conviction of a member Of his
own race?
He pnts in "a plea of Justification
but it will hardly stand in the case OF
a leader of the w. E. B. Du Bots type.
Marcus Garvey has his opinions. In
free country, he has right to express
them. W. E. B. Du Bots has the same
right, but according to the rules OF
propriety and along the lines of grear
ness he should have not let his pas
sions to run riot in discussing Garvey
and his propaganda.
This too, is matter Of our opinion
the result of years of experience. Ii
Garvey is wrong, he will find the seed
of disaster in his own teachings. Ger
tainly, no red blooded American OF
color could or would approve of the
utterances, which DR.. w. E. B. Du Bots
and Mr.. James Weldon Johnson &C
credit to President-General Marcus
Garvey. The extreme utterances o.!
both tend to help rather than to hurt
that redoubtable leader of the blacks.
They strike him and he strikes back
even though it leads to his own undo
ing.
We are saying these things because
we heard Marcus Garvey speak in this
city ana we got the underlying pur'
pose of his vitriolic attacks. He is en-
deavoring to get white support for his
Back to Africa" movement, while as
a matter of fact, he is heaping up
"coals of fire" upon his own head. DR..
w. E. b. Du Bots then loses his self
control, when he says:
The American Negroes have endur-
ed this wretch all too long with fine
restraint and every effort at co-operat
ion and understanding. But the end
has come. Every man who apologies
for or defends Marcus Garvey from
this day forth writes himself down as
unworthy Of the countenance of de-
cent Americans. AS for Garvey HIM
self, this open ally of the Ku Klux
Khan should be locked up or sent
home.
This then is the result OF DR.. Du
Bots, indictment trial and conviction.
He is so drastic in his conclusions that
he does not permit any other American
to indulge in modifying comment The
question resolves itself into two phas-
es: Is Marcus Garvey a lunatic? Is
Marcus Garvey traitor? 1t is UP to
the Government of the United States
to answer the questions and in reach
ing a conclusion, that decision should
not be swayed by the radical opinions
of those of our electorate, who may be
for or against him. Selah.