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will sell his own people into He'll the
same as anybody else"
After several others had spoken,
Mr.. Garvey again took the floor, say
ing he desired to make statement.
I'm my remarks a while ago, ~ he
said, Il made certain remarks about
the Negro preachers. Someone has
asked me to qualify what I said and
to specify that mean some Negro
preachers and not all Negro preach
ers. Now my views on that subject
are very plain and we'll known; there
are some Negro preachers who are
liberal. Nevertheless, those who are
liberal are very few. / will not con-
ceal my thots and say plainly that
the Negro preachers need new con-
version. / really mean what l said.
repeat that the Negro preachers need
to get educated. They are 80 or 80
per cent wrong, and they know it,
too.
1--WE have to speak as we feel, and
I really mean that. Even Bishop Nc
CURE. too"
However, later Garvey as chairman
called delegate to order for speak
ing of the Negro Improvement Asso
citation as being against the preachers
Garvey said to him, This organiza-
ton is not against the preachers;
please don't misinterpret the spirit of
this convention"
The president-generals denuncia-
ton of the capitalist system and the
Negro bourgeoisie were brot about by
the speeches Of several delegates who
thot that the solution Of the problem
Of adjusting race differences was to
address communications and appeals
to upper-class Negroes.
Mrs. Lilly Jones of Mississippi
earlier in the day spoke of trying to
reach the Negro preachers and teach
ers of the South, who are the lead
ers Of their people," complaining of
the conduct of the preachers and the
refusal of different religious sects to
cooperate with one another.
Delegate Hampden spoke of similar
conditions affecting Negro lodges in
the South. His remark to the effect
that "the only way we can solve the
problem of the South is to get in with
the well-to-do class of Negroes" is
thot to have been one reason for Gar
vey's warning against the treachery Of
the Negro capitalist.
Complains Rich Negro Sells Out to
White.
A delegate rs years of age, born in
Mississippi, told of having been threat
ened with murder on his travels in
Arkansas, and complained of Negroes
in favored positions who sold out to
the white people"
A peculiar conception of history
which seems to be fundamental to this
organizations plan for grand migra-
ton to Africa as the only possible So
luton of the Negroes problem, was
shown by delegate from Ohio, who
said:
Il know of no case in history where
slave class was liberated within the
surroundings in which it was held in
slavery"
This sentence epitomizes the domi-
nant current of thought in the organ
ization. STEPPED in the preachers
lore fbr,, rronaratfone 90 re- a., tha
backward South, the average Negro is
better versed in the biblical version
of the Exodus from Egypt than he is
in the history Of the Russian revolu-
ton. The biblical story of the Jews
escape from slavery in Egypt back to
Palestine" is constantly recurring in
the speeches, evidently FURNISHING
the model for the escape "back to AT
RIGA"
Thus the Ohio delegate, truly OBJ
serving that in American capitalist So
ciety "the Negro has no rights which
the white man is bound to respect,
concludes that this country is not his
own" and that the Negro must take
the Utopian solution of migration to
Africa. Thus also he reaches the
strange conclusion that he can afford
to surrender all of his rights in
America to the Ku Klux Khan.
Delegate after delegate spoke elo-
quently this afternoon of treatment
they had suffered in the South, OF
lynchings of Negroes for crimes that
appeared to have been committed by
white men, of Acknowledgement or CO
ercion Of voters and the abuse Of Ne.
gro women in the South, and the
southern habit Of refusing any legal
redress to Negroes who after accumu.