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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 - a f E ° i! de Neg agekty q . E ask _— nd eShug 25 of By Robert] Minor — evatic-willed “wl and Magro people, elect a Negro to represent therm im the City QGounctl op a page $e vernuent * This is a clipping frau of the; Datos MAK Cliypea ac the Seat ox 37
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