The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1954-02-06


JOE LOUIS
HISTORY WEEK, CONNIE
morating the more than 8OOo
year recorded world history of
Colored Peoples, will be observed
IN Boston and other American
cities beginning this month
Along with tbs English, Irish.
Italian and other races, the
Colored man possesses a noble
history, second to none. Much
OF this achievement has been
suppressed. Some has been
added to others. Most of it has
become 'the missing pages in
Western World text books.
TIFF ARGUMENT is sometimes
advanced that if it wasn't for
the current Western control"
OF Africa, the people of color
would never have achieved anv
civilization. To begin with, Asia
NOT Europe, was the cradle of
civilization, along with Africa
Neither was dependent upon
Europe, which gained all of its
fundamental science and re-
iIgion from the East.
AFRICA HAD fabulous ciyili-
cations (along with Asia) many
centuries before Europe awoke
to the dawn. Astounding in gold.
diamonds, ivory and other ma
tural wealth, Africa featured
some of the worlds earliest
Kingdoms and empires. Some,
like Egypt, Cush, Sheba and
Ethiopia are clearly mentioned
in the Bible. There were also
Kingdoms in central, east, west
and south Africa. Some Afri-
can art is said to be over $1,000
years old.
MARCUS CARNEY, although
controversial in some of his be-
liefs, held a very logical opinion
that Africa could have resumed
her own certain development
if freed from Western shackles.
Carney reasoned that the great
African resources INCLUDING
uraniumO could have easily pur-
chased the cargo ships, tech
nical skillS, commerce and in
dustry, schools, etc under ma
tive rule. To-day some colonial
leaders are inclined to agree.
HOW COULD eolored men
learn to operate cargo ships,
fly jet planes, work on atomic
and electronic machines, direct
a bank or business, control hos
pitfalls, schools, newspapers, ra-
dio? Remember the Skeptics?
The speed with which colored
people land Asiaticsl have
adapted themselves to what
we call modern civilization is
itself a proof that these Gin
ferior people" are a product Of
civilizations Of the past.
THIS BELIEF Is a slow pro-
cess. 1t opposes Western
School program of mis-education
as powerful as the Soviet Sys-
TEN. Western scholars now
claim all achievement, all
knowledge, all history. They
have propagated the teaching
that Colored Peoples belong to
some lifelong inferior slave
society. Western historians,
like Churchill and Toynbee,
have added to this "mis-edu-
cation" But their work is more
vanity than fact.
PALEFACE PEOPLES have in
recent decades been enslaved
by Germans, Japanese, Russians,
Koreans and Chinese. This is
A renewed experience" of SINH
lar bondage in the past which
many had forgotten. 1t served
to remind them that Servitude,
rast or present. never belonged
exclusively to any one race.
Anr it proved that a period
of bondage never indicated the
true talents of a people. Even
the enslaved Greeks taught the
RomanSl
JOE LOUIS, whose life story
begins a film feature in Bos-
ton this week, told an equally
interesting story in November
1858 issue of SEE magazine.
entitled. my Toughest Fight"
II told of Joe's fight against
race prejudice in the Army.
Concluding the story, Joe says;
"It's been a hard battle, but
I think the final round is COM
ing up in our lifetime" 49,
Visit a Race History Week
lecture and see Joe's picture
too.