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we “e 33 ra Sem ens WY 100-41674 "There are some of us who feel our hurts so deeply that we fied it impossible to work with whites: we feel that it te futile to hope or dream ia teres of Azericac Life. Our distrust is eo great that we fora intensely racial and nationalistic orgenizations and advocate the establieient sf a separate atate, a forty~ninth atate, in which we black folk would live. "There are even today among us groups that forlernly plan a return to Africa.® "There are others of use who feel the need of the protection of a etrong nation ec keenly that we adeire the harsh ané imperialistic policies of Japan and ardently hope that the Japanese will assure the leadership of the darker races’, "4s our consclousness chengss, as we come of age, as we shed our foly ewaddling clothes, so run our lives in a bundred directions. SToday. a1] of us black folk are not poor. 4 few of us have sonay. Ve mke it as the white folk make theirs, tut cur soney-paking is restricted to our own people. Many of us black folk have managed tc send our children to echool, and a few of our children are now professional and business men whose standards of living approximate those of middle-class whites, Scene of us own mell businesses: others devote their lives to law and medicine. "But the majority of us still toil on the plantations, work in heavy industry, and labor in the kitchens of tke Lords of the Land and the Bosses of the Buildings. "The general dislocation of life during the depreseion caused many white workers to learn through chronic privation that they could aot protect their standard ef Living ac lene as wa blacks wara azcluded fram their unions. Pasyea Peis eS Berea wy ov=R, Freer eS om we ro Many hundreds of thousands of them found that they could not fight successfully for increased wages and union “‘yecogni tion unless we stood shoulder to shoulder with thes. 4s a consequence, many of us have recently become penbers of steel, automobile, packing and tobdaceo unions,* The follewing quotations are found on Page 146 of the sane book and is the last page of the novel: "The differences between black folk and white folk are not Bleed er eolor, and the ties that bind us are deeper those ¢ eoperate us. % .epanon_ road of hope which we a1 have trevelled bas brought us into @ stronger Klaehip’ thar any words, laws or legal claiss.* “Ynat do we black folk want? We want what others have, the right to share in the upward ecrch of Aperioan life, the only life we renesber or have ‘ ty ge t