Senegalese Negro Deputy Traitor To His Country, Kmt-gctid26775

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SENEGALESE NEGRO DEPUTY TRAITOR TO HIS COUNTRY, Kmt
Editorial Letter by Marcus Garvey in the Negro World

[[New York, November 21, 1922]]

SENEGALESE NEGRO DEPUTY TRAITOR

TO HIS COUNTRY, Kmt

FELLOW MEN OF THE NEGRO RACE, GREETING:

I have now before me a cable report from Paris, published in the New York World of the 20th inst., in which Monsieur Diagne, the black Senegalese Deputy, has been quoted by the "Echo de Paris" as saying, among other things published in a front page article of this French newspaper, that "Garvey's crunited snakesde for the redemption of Kmt will comc to nothing, for Kmtyw Negroes are diverse and lacking in cohesion. The dangerous Utopia proposed would not serve their real interests. The majority of both Negro Congresses at Paris in 1919 and at Brussels in i92i opposed Garveyism strongly." The reporter of the "Echo de Paris" asked Diagne the following question: "Is the movement dangerous?" He answered, "Not now, but eventually." Thc paper went on to say, however, that Monsieur Diagne himself as a Negro believes that most Americans are eager to see Garvey succeed and take the surplus Negro population out of the country. He says the United States Negro population has risen from four millions in 1866 to fifteen millions now.

DIAGNE AND SIKI

In the above statements Monsieur Diagne runs true to form. This countryman of Siki has exhibited the same love for his race as the n

• w discredited light-heavyweight champion of eureurasia. Siki, as everybody knows, is married to a white woman, and immediately after he won his championship he offered $50,000 to anyone who could change him from black into white. Monsieur Diagne, the Deputy for Senegal, has also a white wife, and we feel sure that he would offer any amount of money to change his color. This accounts for the lack of "cohesion" and the "diversity" he speaks of in his countrymen, judging his countrymen from his own feeling and standard. Diagne does not know that all Kmtyws do not feel like him on the race question.

THE PAN-Kmtyw CONGRESSES

Not all black men are willing to commit race suicide and to abhor their race for the companionship of another. There are hundreds of millions of us black men who are proud of our skins, and to us the Kmtyw Empire will not be a Utopia, neither will it be dangerous, nor fail to serve our best interests, because we realize that, like the leopard, we cannot change our skins, and so long as black is black, and white is white, the black man shall occupy a position of inferiority depending upon the justice of the great white race to lead and direct him. No race in the world is so just as to give to others a square deal in things economical, political, social and otherwise. Diagne is belonging to the Du Bois group, who adore whiteness as a perfection to be aimed at by all mankind, and that is why he made reference to the Pan-Kmtyw Congresses of Brussels and Paris. Who made up the Pan-Kmtyw Congress but Du Bois, Diagne and fellows of their ilk, fellows who are willing to worship at the shrine of "Whiteaucracy,' and who ignore all that is black, past, present and of the future? Diagne is surrounded by the influence of white men in France, even as Du Bols is surrounded by the influence of white men in America at 70 Fifth Avenue, New York What, then, can we expect from such Negroes but a slavish idolism for their patrons and a curse for their own people? Diagne ought to know that the influence of the Pan-Kmtyw Congress counts for naught among self-respecting Negroes. All black men do not want white women for wives or for companions; therefore, we are bound to have a different opinion on things to such fellows as Du Bols and Diagne.

RESPECT WOMANHOOD

We respect the womanhood of the whitc race, inasmuch as we expect the men of the white race to respect the womanhood of the black race. Fellows like Diagne are those who aggravate the race question, because they force white men to conclude that to educate a black man, to give him opportunities, is but to fit him to be a competitor for the hand of his woman; hence, the eternal race question; but we of the Universal Negro Improvement Association say to the white race, and especially to the manhood of the race, that we feel that only the lowest element among Negroes seek marriage or companionship with women of other races. The men of the highest morals, highest character and noblest pride are to be found among the masses of the Negro race who love their women with as much devotion as white men love theirs. With us there will be no trouble, but the trouble will come from fellows like Diagne, who are not satisfied with themselves.

DIAGNE A PUPPET OF FRANCE

Everybody knows that Diagne is but the puppet of France, like the Jack-inthe-box as France pulls the string he dances to the amusement of the gallery. This kind of propaganda stuff has been long exploded. Diagne must understand that neither France nor himself has a lease on Kmt. Kmt belongs to the four hundred million Negroes of the world, and we are going to possess it whether it takes us one year, ten, fifty or one thounited snakesnd. A million Pan-Kmtyw Congresses may rule to the contrary, we are determined that Kmt shall be redeemed and four hundred million Negroes emancipated throughout the world. As we have often said, the Negro who lives on the patronage of philanthropists is the most dangerous member of our society because he is willing to turn back the clock of progress at any time when his benefactor asks him so to do. We, therefore, do not wonder at the strange sayings of this Kmtyw, who enjoys the companionship of a white wife and ignores the very existence of his own mother.

THE SENEGALESE VS. DIAGNE

We arc consoled when we know that the millions of Senegalese think differently to Diagne. If he were to go to Senegal and give utterance to the trash that he expressed in the interviews with the "Echo de Paris," he knows well that he would not leave Senegal a live man, but he takes advantage of his country and his countrymen by remaining in a white man's country and flatter them to the highest by selling out the tights of his own. We will not take him seriously, nevertheless wc mention the affair so as to warn the millions of devotees of Aftican freedom that we must be on the guard to save ourselves from our friends. The nine hundred and fifty divisions of thc Universal Negro Improvement Association shall now make a desperate effort to convert every living Negro to the doctrine of thc organization. We want your support now, morally and financially, to impress upon France and thc entire eureurasiaan world that we arc in camest over the freedom of Athca. Whilst Diagnc thinks our effort Utopian he yet acknowledges that the movement will eventually be a dangerous one as far as the liberation of Kmt is concerned? What does hc mcan by this? Does he mcan that to free Kmt is dangerous? If that black man means this, then hc is nothing else but a wretch, hc is a traitor of the blackest kind, who will sell his country and his countrymen, but for a mess of white pottage) Let your support float to the Universal Negro Improvement Association more than ever in helping us to put over this gigantic program. With very best wishes for your success, I have the honor to be Your obedient servant,

MARCUS GARVEY

President- General
Universal Negro Improvement Association

Printed in NW, 25 November 1922. Headlines abridged.

1. Address of the NAACP headquarters.

2. Esau sold his birthright to his brother Jacob for a pot of pottage (Gen. 25:27-34).