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RandOlph's Speech
In Los Angeles
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tions. Failure of capitalism to pro,
vide for the exploitation of the ma,
tional market by higher wages Gre
ated surplus capital, which sought
new markets.
That" the speaker explained
''is why Great Britain went into
Hong Kong, Singapore and India;
France into Morocco; Japan into
Manchukuo; Italy into Ethiopia
Germany into the Cameroons, and
America into the South and Cen
trail Americas, and demanded an
open door in China.
Missionaries, commercial ad-
venturers, soldiers and sailors with
their Bibles, booze and bullets soft
ened up, intimidated and murdered
countless millions of Africa,
Asia .. to acquire the new world
markets for monopoly capitalism"
Randolph charged.
"The darker races were taught
by word and song, blood and fire,
sword and gun that all non-white
peoples were and are inferior . .
This psychological and propaganda
barrage was indispensable to break
ing the spirit and resistance of the
colored nations to imperialism.
However, times have changed"
the labor leader declared. "Verily,
imperialism contains the seed of it's
own destruction. Now the darker
races are not only fighting for the
right to live and the right to be
free, they are entering the struggle
for power, world power. They are
out to build world power because
modern Imperialism has taught
them that power alone is the
grounds and assurance to the right
to live and to be free"
This, he said, is the meaning
of the declaration of Japan of Asia
for the Asiatics . Monroe Doc
trine of the Pacific, sort of i'm
perialistic correlative of our own
national policy of hemispherical
indivisibility of the Americas; of
England's Britannia Rules the
Waves" of Germany's "Deutch-
land Uber Allies" of Russia's
hopes for the Dardanelles and Pan
Slavic unity.
Rising Tide of Color
Sighting a "rising tide of color"
Randolph declared that the Chinese
attempt to achieve internal unfit
cation to expel Nippon from their
war-torn country" is contained in
the struggle of the darker races
for power.
eyes," he went on, mot only
does China seek to rid herself of
the gruelling yoke of Japan, but as
sure as night follows day, will turn
upon her so-called' white imperial
list benefactors and point them
to the gate. This is destined to be
the inevitable phase of China's
growing nationalism. 1t is the
mandate of the law of survival.
'It is the meaning" he went on,
"of the challenge by India of Brit
ish Dominion and the distrust of
Gandhi and Nehru of American
Democracy.
at is the meaning of shoulder
ing fires of revolt of African
peoples against white supremacy
and the growing and insistent de-
mand of Negroes in the West Indies
and the United States for racial
equality"
The reins of his eloquence firm
ly held by wisdom and reason,
Randolph declared, &c. we strug-
gle forward for power because,
with it alone, can we batter down
the citadel of racial bigotry, intol-
erance, discrimination, segregation
and jim crow.
at will be power, air-power, sea
power, land power, and not justice
or right which will determine
who will dictate the Peace. 1t was
so in World War l and it will be so
in World War III unless the eco
nomic basis of wars is removed"
Offering a blueprint for the &C
QUESTION of the power with which
to secure freedom and justice by
the American Negro, Randolph
urged organization, unity, solidar-
ity; as an example of the success
of this technique, pointing to Chris
tianity which became the force il
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to submit insult, injury and violenc