Life — September 2, 1920 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Tee HE tee “11's GETTIN’ TO BE SUMPIN FIERCE, RED. I NEVER SEEN THE TIME WHEN IT WAS SO HARD TO KEEP OUT 0’ WORK” Better fighters than 1 am are busy with the active work at the front.” XT to Poland the most critical case of impending self-determination is Ireland. The newspapers reported the other day that Ulster men had seen the light and were going to withdraw oppo- sition to Dominion Rule in Ireland, and go in for it with the rest of the Irish. That was good news, and we should all It is what Ulster should hope it is true. long, long ago. To most Ireland here, who are Irish, an independent Irish nd a Domin- Aus- have done friends of not themselves Republic seems impossible, a ion Government such as Canada and tralia have, the best solution. In this country there are no Irish-haters of much account. All lovers of England, as well as all lovers of Ireland and all true lovers of the United States, hope for a peaceful and satisfying issue of Ireland’s struggle for self-government. Everyone realizes that if the great Irish grievance can be abated, the greatest obstacle to kindness between this country and Great Britain will be removed, but that account should Sinn Fein reject Dominion Home Rule. not even on aly, (i. x SS “uN a HE Negroes, it seems, are also think- ing actively about self-determination. me of them have been having a thirty- 405 day convention of the Negro race here in New York, and have discussed Africa for the black man. Some of the and manifestations of the convention have been funny, but on the whole it was no joke, and the big Jamaica Negro, Marcus F, Garvey, who is the leader of the move- incidents ment, talks well and mixes in with his discourse occasional bits of sense. He the being harder all the time—that the racial preju- dice against them is extending from the American South all over the world, and says Negroes are crowded that unless they buck up they will go un- der altogether. Force, he the “If the Negro does in the next century that he is the equal of the white in capacity, in fight- ing power, the white man will never give him the chance to show it, but will domi- nate him, in Africa and out of it, to an extinction as complete as that of the American Indian. It is the pur- pose of this first to the hollowness of the white r says, is Negroes’ only hope. not show movement prove nan's claim to racial superiority by developing with- industry, for then to assert and in our race capacity for civilization, for war establish the complete independence of Africa from the white man’s rule.” That is all right if the Negroes can do it. The this continent won't die out like the Indians on They are very hardy, have no nerves, and have lived in contact with civilization there any. A large part of Africa is waiting now for their civilization, If they can do there what Mr. Garvey hopes, there ought to be plenty of help for them from the white races, and from such organizations as the League of N; What the Negroes cannot do is to stand between any continent and progress. So far, their progress has come chiefly from contact with the whites. Whenever and wherever they show the ability to go ahead and rise on their own hook, they ought to be helped to do it and protected until they get the necessary strength to protect themselves, ever since was ions. Africa is a large place, a. of it is equatorial or better ad black people than to white. There is rom there for much experiment, and, of course, there is time for everything—there is lots of time. The ideas that are fermenting now take centuries to work probab! to the Ancient of Days! What we do not want in this country, and what the world seems to re; increasing aversion, is admixtu We mulatto or mestizo civilizations may out— they will; but what are centuries d with of dif- do not ferent colored races. want comicbooks.com