The daily worker., 1934-07-13
George Schuyler: Portrait
Of "Centleman's" Negro
Schuyler Backed Rule
of Harvey Firestone
In Liberia

the approval Of the Firestone in
tereSts) sent him to interpret"
Liberia. Returning, Schuyler said
that imperialism was good not
only for Liberia, but for every
other oppressed nation which
happened to be getting a dose of
it.
The Pittsburgh Courier, owned
by corporation of which Robert
T. Vann, assistant to an assistant
attorney general in the Roosevelt
administration, Is head, is unoffi-
cial mouthpiece of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and one of the
wealthiest Negro papers in the
country. 1t used to be Repub-
lican, just as Schuyler used to be
Socialist; but the Democrats Of
fered the sheet a bigger subsidy
and the Republicans were de-
serted. These are the facts in the
case Of Schuyler and the Courier,
and, possessing them, you can un-
derstand why they both hope to
see the Scottsboro boys lynched.
Schuyler and Cam reflected the
wishes of their class bosses.
The bad" Negro
QUOTING Hundley further:
Y "The worst slaves, however,
the most degraded, thieving, i'm
pudent, and utterly worthless, are
those who belong to men in mod
crate circumstances Such
slaves in the main enjoy greater
liberties than other Negroes, are
familiar with their masters,
do not begin to work as hard as
the latter, and the consequence is
that they grow up to be sleek,
and rascally. They never feel the
lash, even in infancy, are per-
mitted to leave home at all times
without a pass and to run about
at night pilfering from hen-roosts,
pigeons, and dairies -. And the
worst of IL is, just among such a
class Of slaves, in the mountain
GUS districts the emissaries
of Northern fanaticism are cast
ing broadcast their incendiary
firebrands, deluding the poor
simple minded blacks that, by
numbering their masters and mis-
tresses, they shall be raised to the
condition of ladies and gentlemen
themselves, with plenty of lands
and money, and nothing to do
but eat and Sleep"
There is not space enough to
take us into detailed analysis of
Hundley's blend Of falsehood and
truth. We can only say hastily
that these "most degraded, thiev-
ing. impudent, and utterly worth
less Negroes either took pigs,
chickens, eggs, butter, and milk
from the wealthy planters land
nobody else had any Of these
foods in abundance), or they did
not eat. Certainly their masters,
being in moderate circums-
tances," could hardly feed their
own families. Thrown thus upon
their own resources, these slaves
developed such wit and cunning
as we're unknown among the re-
latively favored Negroes of the
rich. Laxity of discipline was
part of the poor shareholders pay
ment to his ehattels for his Tlec-
essarily shabby treatment OF them.
1t was, moreover, his method OF
humoring them, method which
did not differ, in intent, from the
rich mans method of treating
his slaves: each acted toward
them in a way to make them
contented and happy and to In
sure his own security among
them.
Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey,
staIwart black leaders Of slave
revoIts, belonged to that most
degraded, thieving, impudent, and
utterly worthless" lot. These
blacks we're the forerunners OF.
Negroes who today have helped
force the lynch courts Of Ala
bama to stay the execution of
the innocent Scottsboro boys, in
spite of Schuyler's jubilant pro
phecy' that they would march to
the electric chair on August olst
"as scheduled"