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FREEDOMWAYS            FIRST QUARTER 1986

prospect? While we are planning, as a result of the present holocaust, the disarmament of Europe and a European international world-police, mist the rest of the world be left naked to the inevitable horror of war, especially when we know that it is directly in this outer circle of races, and not in the inner European household, that the real causes of present European fighting are to be found?

Our duty is clear. Racial slander must go. Racial prejudice will follow. Steadfast faith in humanity must come. The domination of one people by another without the other’s consent, be the subject people black of white, must stop. The doctrine of forcible economic expansion over subject peoples must go. Religious hypocrisy must stop. “Blood-thirsty” Mwanga of Uganda killed an English bishop because they feared that his coming meant English domination. It did mean English domination, and the world and the bishop knew it, and yet the world was “horrified”! Such missionary hypocrisy must go. With clean hands and honest hearts we must from high Heaven and beg peace in our time. 

In this great work who can help us? In the Orient, the awakened Japanese and the awakening leader es of New China; in India and Egypt, the young men trained in Europe and European ideals, who now form the stuff that Revolution is born of. But in Africa? Whole better than the twenty-five million grandchildren of the European slave trade, spread through the Americas and now writhing desperately for freedom and a place in the world? And of the millions first of all the ten million black folk of the United States, now a problem, then a world-salvation. 

Twenty centuries before the Christ of great cloud swept over sea and settles on Africa, darkening and well-nigh blotting out the culture of the land of Egypt. For half a thousand years it rested there until a black woman, Queen Nefertari, “the most venerated figure in Egyptian  history,” rose to the torne of the Pharaohs and redeemed the world of her people. Twenty centuries after Christ, black Africa, prostrate, raped, and shamed, lies at the feet of the conquering Philistines of Europe. Beyond the awful sea a black woman is weeping and waiting with her sons on her breast. What shall the end be? The world-old and fearful things, War and Wealth, murder and Luxury? Or shall it be a new thing-a new peace and new democracy of all races: a great humanity of equal men? “Semper novi quid ex Africa!”

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