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E B William Dubois — Part 4
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ond, essentially, constitute « part of capitelist ergenisations, Since the 05
Goverment established its contro] over the jasue of peasports for travelling abroad,
this control has been used for preventing those Negroes from trevellidag ebroed who
eriticise the recialist system in the USA, hus, for exauple, Paul Bebeson wee
q- Maprived of his passport for seven yeavs. I also vas refused » paggpert, elthough
Wegroes who favoursbly described amerios or kept silent eboct the soekel #itustion
_ Sm the DSA could get passports,
is time went on, however, big business boceme aware of the Giecreponsy
between declarations of desire for trede and friendship with Asian amt African
sountries and discriminstion agsinst the aoloured population st home, This led to
the attempts to introduce reforms in the system of public primary achools, Independent
schools for Negroes, which achieved certain successes thanks to the efforts of the
Negroes themselves and to the sid of White philenthropists were formed, But es
general education embraced ever wider strate of Wegroes end os charity worsened, the
position of the Negro schools became worse, The States were unable to support the
parallel system of schools for Whites and Negroes, Phe only sclution was to create
a single school system embracing ell races, Such an interpretation of the Constitution
was supported by the Supreme Court, However, the majority of former slave-cming
Southern States opposed this. Their ettitude has led to such incidents #5 in Little
Rock,
This problem has still to be solved if one is to #liminate the last
vestiges of slavery, at least in education, It represents only # part of more
serious problems, which are not only of s rocial ¢chcrracter, The matter concerns,
first of a11, the problems of labour and wages, ‘The US Wegroes need socialism,
They need something similar to what is possessed by the national minorities in the
Soviet Union: the opportunity to develop their own notional cuiture, preserving
their historic traditions, and to develop their ert anf culture, Only in this way
will it be possible to preserve the originality of their masic and dances and the rest
of this cultural heritage. Furthermore, the Nefroes should have employment according
to their abilities and receive Woxes socording to their needs, This is the aim of
comiunisn, but the Negrocs do not know about it, The leaders of the Negro people
make 4 serious mistake ond often force them to support the “witeh-hunting" campaigns
directed ogoinst commmisn,
If the American Negroes and ell other Americans of #11 colours of skin could
take into consideration everything that is today happening in the world, if they could
study the history of Russic end Chins, if they could soqueint themselves with the
teaching of Marx and Lenin, they would support socialism, However, at present the
US primary schools do not teach this, The US colleges pay littie attention to these
subjects, Socialism is presented as 3 failure, oni communism as a crime,
This, however, cannot last for ever, Despite various obstacles, the
number of literate Negroes is incresting, Thanks to the aid rendered by their
White friends, the effectiveness of Negro organisations is growing. One doy the
Negroes will attain complete liberation not only from slave lsbour, but also from
wage slavery end from ractal hotred,
The Negroes hove already made their contribution to history, They helped
the USA in the liberotion from the yoke of-the British Empire, Five million
Yerroes fought for the sbolition of slavery In the USA, end Abraham Lincoln
emphasised that without their ai¢ the North would havc been unable te achieve victory
4n the Civil War in 1861-1864, American literature has been created mainly by
Mogroee, either by Negro writers ef Negro heroes in literary works, Art is to a
great extent of Negro origin. American science is trredeemably indebted to Benjamin
(Domicker}, (tJohn Mestelicer) and Ernst Just, Hod Negro children been able in the
past 25 years to heve the same education as Sovict children, #1] humon values would
have been preserved,
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