The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-20
By Robert Minor

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The secret which Gen Billiard is
not telling is well known to many
Negro veterans of the war. The truth
is that when these Negro troopers
never budged at ALL" it was not due
to any cowardlce, but to a stirring Of
a certain kind of courage greater than
any that could ever be known to
the sallow-souled white general from
Alabama--the courage which is be-
ginning to stir in a hundred million
black breasts-the courage to resent
and fight against the treatment as
interiors" which was being dealt out
by Billiard and his white officer pup
pets.
In times Of peace when General
Billiard sits in quiet safety in his on
GERS club with his mint julep, the
average southern Negro goes every
hour of day and night in danger
greater than Billiard faced In France.
No, general, these Negroes were not
afraid. They had only begun to learn.
When they get started fighting, you
among others may wish they were
towards.
The World and the Dark Races.
A ND now we look at the news of
"A the world of today. The darker
races Of the world are on the rise.
They constitute the majority of the
population of the world-black men,
yellow men OF China, brown men of
India, these men of color are more
than half of the population of the
whole world. Turnout the world the
capitalist class dogma of race IN
feriority" is being assaulted by the
countless millions who are suppressed
in colonial bondage. Even at this mo-
ment the telegraph is clicking the
news that the swarthy "greasers"-
the heroic Mexican workers and peas
ants-have forced even Gales to
throw back into the teeth of Calvin
Coolidge the insolent assertion Of
American imperiaIist domination over
the inferior" people of Mexico.
Chinai Listen to the yellow mems
guns, General Robert Lee Bullard!
Listen! Are yellow men "hopelessfy
Inferior? Are they afraid to fight!
T ISTEN to the guns in Africa, Gen.
~ eral Billiard! Is Abd-el-Krim also
incapable Of being an officer? It
is true that the Rifians are not con-
sidered Negroes, but Berbers, and
therefore technically white" in spite
OF their dark skin. But watch Africa,
General Robert Lee Billiard, and you
will soon see black Africa join dark
Asia in the general rise of the sin
ferior" races. At present the French
imperialists depend on black Senegal
lese troops to fight their fellow-Afri-
cans of the Riff, but sooner or later,
these black men win learn-and turn
to help fight for Africa for the Afri-
cans.
1t is good thing that General Bull
lard published that book. 1t will help
to put to shame those Negroes who
are to this day pretending to main
tain the lie of the possibility of Ne
groes obtaining certain degree of
equality" under the Wall Street gov
eminent of the United States. It
will help TO jolt the black American
semi-slave into consciousness as to
which side he is on in the struggle
of the working class and the colonial
suppressed peoples against capital
ism.
The Negro at home and abroad is
destined to be a great soldier in the
freeing Of the world from capitalist
oppression. Gen. Billiard and his kind
1.-THE capitalist class in generaD are
beginning instinctively to feel this,
and that partly accounts for the grow
ing propaganda against the Negro.
We are not concerned for the Ne
gro to be a brave" soldier in the
armies OF the enemies of his class
and race. When he begins to fight In
the armies of his own kind and class,
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