Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27
I SEE TT THIS WAY
 By Percival Carter COMMENT ON THE NEGRO AND COMMUNISM

AND COMMUNISM l It is becoming increasingly clear | to colored people of average read ing (............ and listening) habits that the world today is gradually dividing into two political camps of international magnitude: the Communist doctrine on the one hand: the doctrine of democracy on the other hand.
 Colored world population, regard less of reading habits, or quality or extent of education, or natural or acquired degrees of ability to analyze, tare additionally aware of the fact that the policy making control of world governments, is vested in the non-colored races of the world.
 The colored people of this coun- try are fully in appreciation of the fact that local or continental, or worldwide change from democ- racy to Communism, or vice yer sa would not in and of itself dis establish this existing vested con trol.
 Intelligent ,colored people are all so acutely aware of the fact that whether or not Communism or de mocracy gains the ascendancy in world affairs, Negroes residing in Communist spheres of influence will adhere to Communist doc Urine, and Negroes residing in spheres of influence dominated by democracies, will choose political paths consistent with the toler- ances of the democratic philosophy. The natural outcome of this ar engagement will have the end re- suit of separating the Negroes of the world into two political camps. If such an arrangement exists long enough in points of time, the world may one day witness Negro armies exterminating each other in the name of "a national ideal"
 A large proportion of the col ored American masses, and sig able numbers of other racial mi norities, are finding it difficult to appreciate the gradual improve ments that are being realized by the Negro within the democratic process; these are all easy prey for lesson No. 1 in the Commun- lst1c propaganda as the problems of these minorities are made the especial concern of the social en- gineers of the Communistic phil osophy.
 l The effect of this specialization in issues vital to the basic (and naturally thinking of the Negro is to build up a chain of associa. tion of ideas in his mind, that in evitably leads him to the conclu. sion that the very keystone of the Communistic idealogy, is to give the entire Negro race unrestricted equal rights, of the sort and dual. ] ity guaranteed by but not satis. factorily practiced by our democ. racy.
 l In the next stages of his "edu- cation to Communism" the Ameri. can Negro who has accepted and learned his first lessons thoroughly isnex t so propelled to think that he finds himself becoming com pletely "sold" to the proposition that Communism is the true de. mocracy Gas judged on the basi: !of widely advertised special in stances of successful interference on his behalf); and conversely, he ] finds that the old line democracy so-called by name, is really a form of fascism, linked to an arrange ment resembling the caste system i of India, in which the Negro is placed at the lowest, or coolie, enc of the scale.
 The third lesson in "Indoctrina tion to Communism" would seen to resemble religious form O. some sort, in which the approacI