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sincere liberal, Alfred Baker Lewis.
l hate to see such people used as
bellwethers by the Anglo-American
wrecking crew trying to save its
bloody British cousins.
Briefly summed up, Randolph's
contentious are ~ That IF Brit
ain loses, democracy and liberty
will lose"; that (2) such defeat will
threaten our American system of
democracy and liberty; that (S)
under Hitler the right to
worship God according to ones
own convictions, is wiped out and
the pagan religion of the primitive
Germanic tribes is forced upon
YOU; (D Under Hitler, there is
only one political party. The
mere expression of a difference of
political opinion means perse-
cution, etc.; that (5) "In Britain,
men and women are relatively
free; that (6) Hitler "alludes to
the Negro as half ape" and I'M
der him Negroes would be re-
enslaved, etc.; that CD "Under
British rule, Negroes are at least
regarded as human beings. In the
British colonies Negroes are MAX
ing some progress they are
more and more securing the right
to fight for their rights" and that
49, Because they 1.-THE Negroes)
love the democratic way of life and
the status of human beings" they
should urge all aid to England
short of America going to war"
Let US examine these contentious
of DR.. Randolph in the order
stated: ~ Britain is plutocracy
owned by a handful of wealthy in
dividuals and corporations who
own virtually all the property and
natural resources. The bulk of
white Britishers own neither. They
have the liberty of paupers and
wage slaves, as long as they do
not attempt to take back the wealth
they have produced for their mas
tiers. They can vote, as in Ameri-
ca, for either Tweedledum or Twee-
dledee. Mass poverty has been cpl
demic in England for four CEN
turtles. Democracy is therefore a
myth and liberty a fraud, like an
imitation carrot thrown to a mule.
The more than 400 million COL
ored people under British rule in
Africa, America, Australia, India
and Malaysia are admitted even by
informed Britishers to be without
either democracy or liberty. They
cannot lose what they have never
had. Mr.. Randolph should read
Padmore's How Britain Rules
Africa"
(2) DR.. Randolph is also invited
to peruse Mangum's "The Legal
Status of the American Negro"
the annual reports of the NAACP
since 1909 and hundreds of other
documentary accounts of the plight
of Negroes in American democ-
racy, including many of his own
writings. Why any informed Ne
gro should be disturbed about any
threat to this slave system is be-
yond me.
80 There is no evidence what
ever that the right to worship God
has been wiped out in Germany.
True, the Nazis have ousted the
Church from education and politics,
but they found ample precedent in
the U. S. A. Neither Russia nor
Italy has stopped it's serfs from
worshipping God. They have mere
ly stopped substituting prehensile
parsons. az There is also "only
one political party" in our Solid
South, and since Emancipation"
thousands of Negroes have been
mobbed and killed "for the mere
expression of difference of political
opinion" Congress and the Su-
preme court have blessed this total
itarianism.
~ Colored people in Britain,
even native English, are not "rela-
lively free" because they are de-
MED livelihood except as race track
touts, entertainers, coal passers,
pimps and prostitutes. Even Mis-
sissippi gives its Negroes a better
break.
(6) In alluding to the Negro as
a half-ape, Hitler is echoing the
thoughts and opinions of the An
glo-Saxon world for four centuries.
l refer Mr.. Randolph to the extern
sive literature" on the subject in
any library. Only since the rise
of Hitler have the Anglo-Ameri-
cans begun attacking the philoso-
ply of racialism under which they
have enslaved the Negro. Only a