The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1936-06-12
Says MussoIini' $ Conquest
May Smash White Race

LONDON, (ANPl-A warning
that white civilization IS endangcr
ed by an army Of 100000, 900
blacks aroused because italy CON
quered Ethiopia and marched her
native soldiers to the gates of Adj
dis Abba IS contained in a feature
article BY Dennis Sullivan given a
prominent display in a recent edi-
ton Of the nationally popular Nv
erybody's Weekly"
Says the article.
eAiuss0linfs generals marched
the Askaris almost to the gates Of
Adds Ababa. Then, three miles
from their goal. these nstive troops
were halted, and, although they
had done the donkey work. the
sweets Of victory were denied them.
Marshal Badoglio marched into the
fallen city at the head of his white
troops.
eBehind this apparently minor
military operation lies great signi-
ficance. Why were the black troops
kept out of the capital? Was Il
that the Italians feared that they
would fraternise with their brother
hlaclxe9 or feared that, intoxicated
with victory. they would have run
wildg
Black Peril
1--WE used to talk and write a lot
OF the yellow Peril. Today the
most imminent peril is the Black
one. All over the world millions
Of blacks are beginning to think
in terms Of domination by num-
bers. The question Is: Why should
we be ruled and browbeaten by a
mere handful of whites?
And one day that terrible ques-
ton must be answered.
IT once heard an African black
say: You came to US with a Bible
in one hand and : revolver in the
other. If we accepted the Bible
you called it peaceful occupation
and colonisation. If we did not and
you had recourse to the revolver
you called in conquest. But today
we understand both the Bible and
the revolverl
Drawing Together
There 1t is. Gradually, but sure
ly, the black races are drawing
together in the common bond of a
new enlightment, and from every
rner of the world comes that
a1~ful: Why? Why should we be
the underdogs?
'AIussolini's victory may cost the
white man dear. Millions of blacks
are now sympathizing with the AD-
| yssinians millions more are glow
ing with pride that other blacks,
the Askaris, have proved equal in
military bravery and skill to the
white troops which marched be-
hind them.
.'Will all these blacks one day
march together? If so, the earth
viii tremble to the ponderous thud
of the greatest army the world has
ever known.
America employed Negro troops
in the Spanish-American war They
strutted the earth. Negroes in uni
form considered themselves super
Tor to white civilians, and, insol-
emily drunk with the sense of pow
err, pushed them off the pavement.
America took heed, and the lot of
the Negro in the United States has
been none too much comfortable
these past years.
Learning Every Day
But there are 100000 of them
over there. They are going to Am
crican universities, they are learn
ing every day all about the very
things which have been peculiar
knowledge or peculiar privilege Of
the whites. They are learning how
one day to GUST the white from his
proud position.
when Jack Johnson wore the
heavyweight crown of boxing there
were racial riots all over America.
After one of his victories, so fren-
zied were the scenes that several
murders were committed. Harlem
New York's East End goes mad
over Joe Louis When they see one
of their kind beating the white men
at white mems pursuits, the Ne
groes hail him as champion of
their woes and their hopes. A de-
liverer A leader ia the black con-
quest on which they brood and
dream.
Discomfort is Fermentlnn
1.-THE Black PERIL Do not scott