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Richard Nathaniel Wright — Part 1
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To ell the Truth
Mr. Wright Didn’t Discover It
nist Party he did not dic-
cover that the Communists
have mo concern whatever with
persuading people te be loval to
the Communist organization per
= He in .
meetings for
years, and did-
pot discover
that the only
thing required
fe that you be.
hoya) to the peo-
p's cause. If
you are that,
then joyalt: to
the Communist organization wil
take Gare if ttuself.
Wright has a piece tm the At-
Yantic Monthis, in which, whether
inadvertently ar pot, he takes o
position op far bigger questions
than whether a person likes
Communists.
Within the past few years. and
faster in recent months, the Negro
people have ahapec ic final form
thelr amewers to the national
question for the Wegro of the
United States: That this i inely
country a: well as anyone else's,
and that they wil] have their equal
place in ft and will Sght knock-
@own-and-drag-out for that equal
place, and wil) win, and those who
@ppose it will go the way of Martin
and Joe and Cotton Ed and
Wiereck and Dilling afd Goebbels.
e a er
ot
=~.
1CHARD WRIGHT forgot that
this fight ls om, and with his
head stuck Into his typewriter be
“Coulg a Negre ever Sve hall-
way Me a bomen being in thle
geddame seuttcs
That was all the editor needed
to have Richard Wright's signa-
fare te, im the main; bot Wright
kept--en end gai what logically
goes With M—-betause the big, al
sheorbing, worldwide fight in this
war korps pushing ws along. Ee
wrote:
“Then ... a Jewish ebap .--
Ge iatredeced me te « Jee
tagaim) te a Jewish bey .. -
ish chap... 8 short, ,
bineh-bealred, well-read folie’
feenging Ups sad boigini
a (ond) o Mesre Commnn-
ee ee ey
we mee
Hike: “Der Jude mit
Unterlippe ané Gilets *.
Throughout our sountry, as we
all know, there are Gesperate ef-
for: to soeentuate the “racial”
@rimons to. every possible com- *
plexity. “Negro against Jew.” is
the Gerald Smith way of geiting
Meero support for an anti-Neero
ty ares = ane}
* ppoveroent: since anti-Bemitism is
enly s form of white chauvinian.
And Megro against trade unions,
purely as an aid to the ald vile-
ess of trade-union exclusiveness
against the Negro, The first de-
mand on a man who is to remain
in the Communist movement is
that be be a Gemocrat—in the .
broad, nopparty sense of the word
—s republican in the greet long-
time historival meaning And even
SS. sie FPS
remarkably
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people, elect a Negro to represent
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