Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-07-19
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE GOLD
STAR MOTHERS
By Cyril Briggs

Imperialism seeks to Justify its crimes
against the Negro masses by promoting
the idea that Negroes are inferior race,
that they are incable of progress and, of
CT course, incapable of self-government,
that they are not as sensitive to insults
and oppression as the white races, ect.
This imperialist theology is used to
foster white chauvinism among the white
workers, to justify the specially brutal
exploitation of the Negro masses and
to incite the white workers to contempt
and hatred of the non-white people in
order 10 prevent international working
class solidarity and secure recuits from
the working-ciass for the armed forces
OF Imperialism and for it's fascist organ
izations such as the Kp Eluk khan,
the Amei lean Legion, the Veterans OF
Foreign Wars, Get. The iuperlalist ide-
olOgy of race inferioritv, race hatred
and racial separation is one of the main
props of the imperiRlist system OF
plumber and oppression. Without this
theology it would be impossible to get
white workers for murder expeditions
to Haiti, the Virgin Islands, the Phili-
pines, ect. or to respond to the lynching
Indictment of the southern bosses.
So important is this theology to the
jmperialist system that we find the en-
the machinery of the United States i'm
perialism which, in addition to the sub
ject populations in its colonies and semi
colonies, has within the home territory
an oppressed minority nationality of
over 100000 people, utilised for the
injection into the minds of the white
workers of the virus of race hatred and
prejudice. The schools, the theatres,
the movies, the churches are all delib-
erately used for this sinister purpose
for the imperialist theology of Negro
inferiority and race hatred not only SER
YES the purpose of stirling the natural
protestof the white workers against the
crimes of the white ruling class when
these crimes are directed at Negroes,
but by splitting the American working
class along racial lines serves to waaken
the white workers at the same time that
il isolates the Negro masses for more
brutal exploitation under conditions of
semi-slavery.
We find in the South the unwritten
but strictly observed Jim Grow laws,
laws prohibiting Negroes to eat in the
same restaurants, travel in the same
trains, or attend the same theatres or
churches as hte whites. This division
is to be found in every step of social
life and is enforced by systematic
white terror and mob fyaching. 1t per-
meates the whole life and thought of the
South.
1t is to maintain this imperialist ide-
ology that the imperialist government
of the United States has deliberately
and officially cast the slur of inferiority
on Negroes and goes out of its way to
insult and degrade the Negro Gold Star
Mothers by segregating them on their
trip to visit the graves of the sons who
were betrayed into fighting for imperial
ism and against their own class anr race
Interests in the last imperialist war.
Even in its campaign to whoop up the
war spirit in preparation for the next
imperialist slaughter, United States i'm
perialist does not forget the Importance
race hatred in dividing the working class
of the theology of Negro inferiority and
and iso,ating the Negro masses.
In face of a rising mass protest "a
gainst it's policy of segregating these
woman workers, the imperialist govern
pouupuoo suq se4u4S po4!un oql 10 4ueW
It's plan to insult and degrade before
the entire world these victims of imper-
ialist war.
And in this campaign of insult and
degradation the Negro petty bourgeoisie
are giving their full support, as witness
their announce participation in the ulans
for reception by the New York City
ON 10 duoIS lsIJ eQL "4uemuIeAoD
gro Gold Star Mothers sailed Saturday,
July II. They sailed on a Jim Grow
trip, The day before at the City Hall,
they were given a Jim Crow receipt
And the dominent figue in that recep-
ton was none other but the dandy,
Jimmy Walker, who, on a recent trip
to Europe, demanded the election of a
Negro from an Italian cafe in which
Walker was making whoopee The fas-
eist American Legion, which, with the
Ku klux Khan, lays down lynch law for
the southern Negro masses, participated
in the reception. The Uuited States