Booker T. Washington wrote:
"In the sight of God there is no color line, and we want to cultivate a spirit that will make us forget that there is such a line anyway."
"I have always had the greatest respect for the work of the Salvation Army especially because I have noted that it draws no color line in religion."
Booker T. Washington attended the Hampton Institute, founded by Union General Samuel Armstrong Chapman.
Chapman led the 8th U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War, which fought in the Appomattox Campaign ending with the South's surrender.
Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
He wrote in Up From Slavery (1901):
"I learned this lesson from General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, and resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
With God's help, I believe that I have completely rid myself of any ill feeling toward the Southern white man for any wrong that he may have inflicted upon my race.
I am made to feel just as happy now when I am rendering service to Southern white men as when the service is rendered to a member of my own race.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice."
Washington wrote:
"The man is unwise who does not cultivate in every manly way the friendship and goodwill of his next-door neighbor, whether he be black or white."
Booker T. Washington wrote in Up From Slavery (1901):
"Great men cultivate love ...
Only little men cherish a spirit of hatred."
Booker T. Washing invited
George Washington Carver to teach at Tuskegee.
Carver wrote to Robert Johnson, March 24, 1925:
"Thank God I love humanity; complexion doesn't interest me one single bit."
Carver wrote to YMCA official Jack Boyd in Denver, March 1, 1927:
"Keep your hand in that of the Master, walk daily by His side, so that you may lead others into the realms of true happiness, where a religion of hate, (which poisons both body and soul) will be unknown, having in its place the 'Golden Rule' way, which is the 'Jesus Way' of life, will reign supreme."
The Jesus Way was one of forgiveness, as taught in Matthew chapter 6:
"After this manner therefore pray ... Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors ..
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
Jesus taught in Matthew 18:32-35
"Then the master summoned him and declared,
'You wicked servant! I forgave all your debt because you begged me. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?'
In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed. That is how My heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., attended Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia, 1942-1944.
Rev. King stated at the Civil Rights March, Washington, DC, August 28, 1963:
"I have a dream ... where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers."
The effort to bring reconciliation was resisted after the Civil War by he Democrat Party, which passed Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes, and started violent vigilante groups to keep African Americans down.
The Tuskegee Institute recorded that there were at least 4743 documented lynchings from 1882-1968, being 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites --the whites being "radical" Republicans who were caught registering freed blacks to vote.
Booker T. Washington had to walk a fine line between:
- racist Southern Democrats who committed violence on blacks for trying to rise in social position;
and
- Northern racial agitators who criticized black leaders who were not demanding reparations.
Northern agitators had little comprehension of dangers faced by blacks living in the racist Democrat South.
One of these agitators was W.E.B. Du Bois.
Du Bois visited Germany and called it the "great socialistic state of the day."
After another visit in 1936, he gave a report to the newspaper Staats-zeitung und Herold, 1937, in which he praised the National Socialist Workers Party (Nazi) for handling the economy.
Nazis went on to kill 6 million Jews and millions of other minorities.
In 1926, Du Bois visited the Soviet Union nine years after Russia's Bolshevik Revolution and was so enamored with socialism he visited again in 1936, 1949 and 1959.
Soviet policies in Russia resulted in the deaths of an estimated 40 to 60 million.
Du Bois was attracted to Marx's atheism. He criticized churches and refused to lead public prayers, writing in his autobiography:
"When I became head of a department at Atlanta, the engagement was held up because again I balked at leading in prayer ... I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed ... I think the greatest gift of the Soviet Union to modern civilization was the dethronement of the clergy and the refusal to let religion be taught in the public schools."
In 1958, he visited East Germany where a communist university gave him an honorary doctorate.
In 1959, Du Bois visited Mao Zedung in Communist China.
Deaths from China's communist policies are estimated from 60 to 80 million.
In 1961, Du Bois decided to join the Communist Party, writing in his application:
"On this first day of October 1961, I am applying for admission to membership in the Communist Party of the United States ... At the University of Berlin ... I attended meetings of the Socialist Party and considered myself a Socialist.
On my return to America ... I came to New York as an official of the new NAACP ... It had a strong socialist element in its leadership ... I ... advised Negroes to vote for Wilson ...
For the next twenty years ... I praised the racial attitudes of the Communists ... I began the study Karl Marx and the Communists; I read Das Kapital and other Communist literature; I hailed the Russian Revolution of 1917 ...
In 1926, I began a new effort; I visited the Communist lands. I went to the Soviet Union in 1926, 1936, 1949 and 1959 ... I visited East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
I spent ten weeks in China, traveling all over the land ... I was early convinced that socialism was an excellent way of life, but I thought it might be reached by various methods ...
Today I have reached my conclusion ...
The path of the American Communist Party is clear ... It will call for: public ownership of natural resources and of all capital ... public control of transportation and communications ... limitation of personal income ... social medicine ... Free education for all ... No dogmatic religion - W.E.B. Du Bois."
A similar statement was made by Roger Baldwin, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who wrote in his Harvard College Class Thirtieth Anniversary Yearbook, 1935:
"I am for socialism, disarmament ... I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
Roger Baldwin was an ally of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who he defended in St. Louis, 1912.
Sanger addressed a Klu Klux Klan rally in Silver Lake, New Jersey, and in 1939, began the "Negro Project" to reduce the African-American population, writing:
"We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Booker T. Washington warned of the danger of following in the direction of people like W.E.B. Du Bois.
In a chapter titled "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Washington wrote in My Larger Education-Being Chapters from My Experience (1911):
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
... Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs ...
There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
Washington added:
"A whining crying race may be pitied but seldom respected."
Booker T. Washington's approach to blacks being fully accepted into American life was to follow the path immigrants took.
German, Irish, Jewish, Polish, Italian, Chinese, and others immigrated at the bottom of the social ladder, often being met with racial discrimination.
But by hard work and the pooling of their efforts and resources, they became educated, started businesses, accumulated wealth, made contributions to society, and as a result rose in public respect.
Washington stated:
"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion itself, there must be for our race, as for all races, an economic foundation, economic prosperity, economic independence."
Washington added:
"Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems, that political independence disappears without economic independence; that economic independence is the foundation of political independence."
Booker T. Washington recommended efforts to "concentrate all their energies on industrial education, and accumulation of wealth, and the conciliation of the South," believing that blacks would eventually gain full participation in society by showing themselves to be successful, responsible, and reliable American citizens.
Washington wrote:
"No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is left without proper reward."
"I want to see my race live such high and useful lives that they will not be merely tolerated, but they shall be needed and wanted."
Franklin D. Roosevelt warned Congress, January 3, 1940:
"Doctrines that set group against group, faith against faith, race against race, class against class,
fanning the fires of hatred in men too despondent, too desperate to think for themselves, were used as rabble-rousing slogans on which dictators could ride to power. And once in power they could saddle their tyrannies on whole nations."
Community organizer Saul Alinsky wrote in Rules for Radicals (1971):
“Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to ... the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer."
Alinsky added:
"The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems ...
"Fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression."
"The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community ...
"An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent ...
"He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them."
Proverbs 6:19 states:
"The Lord hates ... a person who stirs up conflict in the community." (NIV)
Agitating organizers engage in a tactic called "psychological projection" or "blame-shifting," where the attacker blames the victim.
Sigmund Freud described this in Case Histories II (PFL 9, p. 132), where rude and hateful people are the first to accuse those they do not like as being rude and hateful.
Karl Marx is attributed with the concept "Accuse the victim of what you do" or "Accuse your opponent of what you are guilty of."
It is an effective political technique - where politicians accuse their opponents of being guilty of exactly what they themselves are guilty of.
One candidate may accuse the other of not caring for the poor just because they do not want a welfare state.
Statistically, welfare traps the poor in permanent poverty and dependency.
Those engaging in psychological projection or blame-shifting make contradictory statements, such as, in order to stop intolerance we are going to be intolerant of everyone we do not like.
They hold up signs against hate while they are actually spreading hate, and put up websites listing as hate groups the groups they hate.
Manning Johnson explained in Color, Communism, and Common Sense, 1958:
"Blaming others may be the easy way, but it is only a short cut to communist slavery."
Jesus taught in Matthew 5:44:
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
Franklin Roosevelt commented on an election tactic called "race-baiting" in his campaign address at Brooklyn, NY, November 1, 1940:
"Those forces ... oppose Christianity because it preaches democracy ...
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions - bound together by ... the unity of freedom and equality.
Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races ...
So-called racial voting blocs are the creation of designing politicians who profess to be able to deliver them on Election Day."
FDR stated in a radio address, January 30, 1940:
"The answer to class hatred, race hatred, religious hatred ... is the free expression of the love of our fellow men."
FDR prayed on United Flag Day, June 14, 1942:
"Grant us victory over the tyrants who would enslave all free men ... We can make ... a planet ... undivided by senseless distinctions of race."
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., warned August 28, 1963:
"In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence ...
... New militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people,
for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom .... We cannot walk alone."
On April 16, 1963, Rev. King warned:
"I stand in the middle of two opposing forces in the Negro community.
One is a force of complacency ...
The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence.
It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation, the largest and best-known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement.
Nourished by the Negro's frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination, this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible 'devil.'"
Manning Johnson (1908-1959) was one of those black men who lost faith in America and joined the communist movement for ten years.
In his exposé titled Color, Communism and Common Sense, 1958, Manning Johnson wrote:
"Ten years later, thoroughly disillusioned, I abandoned communism. The experiences of those years in 'outer darkness' are like a horrible nightmare."
Johnson added:
"I was told that 'the decadent capitalist system is responsible,' that 'mass pressure' could force concessions but 'that just prolongs the life of capitalism'; that I must unite and work with all those who more or less agree that capitalism must go.
Little did I realize until I was deeply enmeshed in the red conspiracy, that ... grievances are exploited to transform idealism into a cold and ruthless weapon against the capitalist system — that this is the end toward which all the communist efforts among Negroes are directed ...
I saw communism in all its naked cruelty, ruthlessness and utter contempt of Christian attributes and passions."
Manning Johnson explained their tactics included:
"Setting up situations that bring about racial bitterness, violence and conflict; putting forth demands so unrealistic that race relations are worsened ...
Stirring up race and class conflict is the basis of all discussion of the communist party’s work ...
The evil genius, Stalin, and the other megalomaniacal leaders in Moscow ordered the use of all racial, economic and social differences, no matter how small or insignificant, to start local fires of discontent, conflict and revolt ...
Black rebellion was what Moscow wanted. Bloody racial conflict would split America. During the confusion, demoralization and panic would set in ...
What if one or five million Negroes die ... is not the advance of the cause worth it?
A communist is not a sentimentalist. He does not grieve over the loss of life in the advancement of communism."
Malcolm X essentially said the same in a 1963 address:
"The liberal is more deceitful, more hypocritical than the conservative ...
The white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro's friend and benefactor, and by winning the friendship and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or a weapon in this political football game that is constantly raging between the white liberal and the white conservative.
The American Negro is nothing but a political football and the white liberals control this ball through tricks or tokenism, false promises of integration and civil rights ...
The white liberals have complete cooperation of the Negro civil rights leaders who sell our people out for a few crumbs of token recognition, token gains, token progress."
Frank Marshall Davis, who later was a mentor to young Barack Obama, was a journalist who joined the Communist Party in Chicago in 1943.
In 1956, he was called to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, then he moved to Hawaii.
In the article “Frank Marshall Davis: A Forgotten Voice in the Chicago Black Renaissance,” written by ex-University of Hawaii professor Kathryn Takara (2002), Frank Marshall Davis is quoted as saying:
"From now on I knew I would be described as a Communist, but frankly I had reached the stage where I didn’t give a damn."
During the Vietnam War, a precursor group to ANTIFA was the Weatherman Underground.
Weatherman leader Bill Ayers later helped launch the political career of a young Illinois State Senator Barack Obama.
Bill Ayers stated:
"I am a radical, leftist, small 'c' communist ... Maybe I’m the last communist who is willing to admit it ... The ethics of communism still appeal to me. I don’t like Lenin as much as the early Marx."
Weatherman leader Eric Mann helped train one of the founders of Black Lives Matters, Patrisse Cullors, who stated in 2015:
"Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers ... We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories."
Congressman Albert S. Herlong, January 1, 1963, read into the Congressional Record (Vol 109, 88th Congress, 1st Session, Appendix, pp. A34–A35) the communist goals for America, which included:
"Discredit the Bible ... Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with 'social' religion."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn warned in Washington, D.C., June 30, 1975:
"I ... call upon America to ... prevent those ... from falsely using the struggle for peace and for social justice to lead you down a false road."
In 2 Corinthians 11, the Apostle Paul gave a rebuke:
"I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed ... or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it way too easily."
Paul admonished in Galatians 1:
"I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel — which is not even a gospel ... Some people are ... trying to distort the gospel of Christ ... If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be under a curse!"
Manning Johnson concluded with some words of hope:
"Great Negro Americans such as Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver should serve both as an inspiration and a reminder to the present and successive generations of Negro Americans that they too
'can make their lives sublime
and in departing leave behind them
footprints in the sands of time.'
The great surge of progress of the Negro since slavery can be largely traced to the work and efforts of these two men, their supporters, their emulators and their followers.
Theirs was a deep and abiding pride of race, a firm belief in the ability of their benighted people to rise above their past and eventually stand on an equal plane with all other races.
Moreover, equality was to them, not just a catchword — the prattle of fools — but a living thing to be achieved only by demonstrated ability ...
We must try to bring America back to sanity.
And let us pray and work, that the misunderstanding, the bitterness, the hate, and the frustration and the tension that exists may disappear and that the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Charity may prevail again amongst our people."
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated in his address, April 16, 1963:
"I have tried to stand between these two forces, saying that we need emulate neither the 'do-nothingism' of the complacent nor the hatred of the black nationalist.
For there is the more excellent way of love and non-violent protest.
I am grateful to God that, through the influence of the Negro church, the way of nonviolence became an integral part of our struggle ...
If our white brothers dismiss ... those of us who employ nonviolent direct action ... millions of Negroes will, out of frustration and despair, seek solace and security in black nationalist ideologies - a development that would inevitably lead to a frightening racial nightmare ..."
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was a Baptist Pastor like his father and grandfather, continued his Civil Rights March address, August 28, 1963:
"Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children ...
I have a dream that one day ... the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning,
'My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside,
Let freedom ring.'
When we let freedom ring ... we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,
'Free at last!
Free at last!
Thank God Almighty,
We are free at last!'"
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s niece, Dr. Alveda King, told The Call Detroit, November 11, 2011:
"My father, Rev. A.D. King, is brother to Martin ...
... Uncle M.L., Daddy, and their earthly father, Daddy King were preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ ...
Daddy King rescued me from abortion in 1950. You can read the story in my book:
"HOW CAN THE DREAM SURVIVE IF WE MURDER THE CHILDREN?" ...
... When my mother wanted to abort me, Daddy King told her:
'No. They are lying to you. She is not a lump of flesh. She is a little girl, with bright skin and bright red hair. She will be a blessing to many.'"
Alveda King concluded:
"So you see, this little girl who is part Irish, part African and part Native American is standing before you today to bear witness of Acts 17:26,
that of One Blood, God made all people to live on earth in a Beloved Community, and one day, to live in Eternity with Him.
So we are one human race, not separate races."
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