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Frank-ly Speaking - Give Ear to our Critics (1951 archives)
Honolulu Record, vol. 4 no.3, p. 8 ^ | August 16, 1951 | By Frank Marshall Davis

Posted on 11/19/2008 9:16:18 AM PST by Calpernia

Instead of pinning the label of "communism" on virtually all adverse" criticism and tossing it into the ashcan, it would pay our leaders to give ear and evaluate such criticism purely on its merits. We are a considerable distance away from perfection; that being so, there is room for improvement in our way of life.

These comments" are the result of a letter published recently in the Christian Science Monitor by Seyd Mohammed Sarodio, who said he was going back home to Jakarta, Java, after spending six years in America. Sarodio is a non-white and, as such, views the U. S. through the eyes of a colored man. He is also one of the many millions of non-whites who are the victims of discrimination while they are being told hypocritically that our democracy is the best thing in the whole world.

"You Are a Fanatically Racial People"

Hitting directly at bur established doctrine of white supremacy, Sarodio said to America in his letter:

"You are self-righteous and talk too much about ideals. You are a fanatically racial people, and do not like anyone of a different color. This prejudice is so "deep and pervasive that it expresses itself in business, in schools, in social parties, in politics, in industrial and labor life, and even in churches.

"Your values are different. These values are reflected in your manners, which are crude; in the home life, which is strained and full of divorces, and in a loose sex life."

Point Four Program "Is Just Another Trick"

White is always right, says Sarodio. This doctrine of white supremacy causes America to support "white imperialism" and the exploitation of colored peoples, and the brown man from Java charges:

"In the world issue of right and wrong, Americans always take sides With their fellow white men. This is true whether the issue involves imperialism, power politics, or strategical maneuvers. You are always in concert with white people,

"Africa and what remains of Asia are still under the white man—European—and you support him by all kinds of methods. That is why we cannot trust the American Point Four program. To us, that is just another trick."

In one breath America "spouts idealism to disarm people" and in the next breath "as soon as they are disarmed America cuts their throats economically, militarily and politically. You Americans always want to be the upper dog. If people disagree with you, they are no good and are wrong," Sarodio continued.

Will Caution His People To Avoid U., S. Contamination

Declaring that "Americans pride themselves as the chosen people because they rule the world with their ideas and influence, their trade and armies," he said that this power is "material and will not last. But pride will not let you see the truth, and you have too much comfort to want to admit or change it."

His conclusions are based on three years at Ohio State, two years at Fordham and one year at Columbia universities, plus living in various towns and cities throughout the nation. Conditions were "about the same in all these places," he said, and concluded:

"I am going home, therefore, to my people and tell them to cultivate our own ways and try to avoid contamination of yours. This is better for me and for them."

At just about the time this letter appeared, a class in government, the United Nations and education at Columbia University heard a noted speaker say that "there is no real UN so far as the darker races are concerned."

"Trusteeship Is Just a New Word for Slavery"

This speaker was James B. Lawson, president of the United African Nationalist movement, who lectured on "Trusteeship and Non-Selfgoverning Territories In Africa." Showing the same kind of criticism as that evidenced in Sarodio's letter, Lawson said:

"To me, trusteeship is just a new word for slavery or the old colonialism. The trusteeship agreements for existing trust territories were drafted by the controlling power in each instance and submitted to the general assembly for improvement only. These agreements were drafted to facilitate imperialism. Conditions in the existing trust territories are no better than conditions in the acknowledged colonies; in some instances, they are even worse than in the colonies."

Under trusteeship, Lawson said, African and other countries "are being drained of their resources to rebuild Europe. None of this money is used for proper education of the people to whom the territory actually belongs, nor for proper health facilities, nor to industrialize these territories. This proves there is no real UN so far as the dark races are concerned; it is just the same old slave masters or new ones."

By ignoring such complaints, we are merely piling up for ourselves a tidal wave of hate which, sooner or later, will sweep over us. Would it not be better to stop now and right these wrongs while there is still time?


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To: Fred Nerks

Now that date is odd compared to docs I found on the Student Travel trips. I wonder if since Robeson was staff, would there be a travel waiver for passports? I’ll upload them to my server in a moment.


61 posted on 11/20/2008 5:54:42 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Chief Engineer

>>>Susan Blake isn’t the only one who places Ann in WA state with an infant in 1961, she is one of many.

Was Stanley Ann in student housing when she attended the university? If so, where was the baby?


62 posted on 11/20/2008 5:58:22 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Fred Nerks; RubyR

>>African Leader Jomo Kenyatta

Yeah; but Kenyatta was in prison from ‘53 to ‘61. If Robeson knew him it was either before ‘52 or after ‘61. So if Robeson lost he passport after ‘55, he either befriend Kenyatta before he lost his passport or did some kind of traveling on a school organized trip with provisions for travel on that grant program.


63 posted on 11/20/2008 6:06:34 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: PhilDragoo; Iowan; RubyR; LucyT; pissant; hoosiermama; Fred Nerks; usmcobra; null and void
Now to totally make you all crazy! Look at this.

I think I'm going back to the consideration of a lebensborn type program being in place.

64 posted on 11/20/2008 6:13:46 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: little jeremiah

Check out the similar features of Paul Robeson and Obama.


65 posted on 11/20/2008 6:15:43 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia

Thanks, Calpernia

Ping.

Do you have the thread link regarding the Lebensborn program?


66 posted on 11/20/2008 6:24:51 AM PST by Iowan
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To: All

Paul Robeson mentioned in Frank Davis’s writing here at this link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2134679/posts?page=6#6


67 posted on 11/20/2008 6:29:21 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: All; nw_arizona_granny

Paul Robeson’s FBI files found by nw_arizona_granny here at this link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2134679/posts?page=7#7


68 posted on 11/20/2008 6:30:34 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: All

Background on Paul Robeson here at this link and how he fits in with the Dunham story here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2134679/posts?page=8#8


69 posted on 11/20/2008 6:31:45 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: PhilDragoo

Can’t this be tested by someone taking his water glass to a friend working in a lab? Everyone in genealogy is having their DNA tested these days.


70 posted on 11/20/2008 6:34:54 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: Iowan
Lebensborn was started by Hitler to create a master race.

Contrary to propaganda, this practice has NOT ended. IMO, WW2 never ended.

The “Lebensborn”

Lebensborn means "spring of life". The "Lebensborn" project was one of most secret and terrifying Nazi projects. Heinrich Himmler created The "Lebensborn" on December 12th, 1935. The goal of this society ("Registered Society Lebensborn - Lebensborn Eingetragener Verein") was to offer to young girls "racially pure" the possibility to give birth to a child in secret. The child was then given to the SS organization which took in charge his "education" and adoption.

In the beginning, the "Lebensborn" were SS nurseries. But in order to create a "super-race", the SS transformed these nurseries in "meeting places" for "racially pure" German women who wanted to meet and make children with SS officers. The children born in the Lebensborn were taken in charge by the SS and it is important to know that most of them were also victims of this race policy....

From 1939, one of the most horrible side of the Lebensborn policy was the kidnapping of children "racially goods" in the eastern occupied countries. These kidnappings were organized by the SS in order to take by force children who matched the Nazi's racial criteria (blond hair, blue eyes, etc....). Thousands of children were transferred to the "Lebensborn" centers in order to be "Germanized". In these centers, everything was done to force the children to reject and forget their birth parents. As an example, the SS nurses tried to persuade the children that they were deliberately abandoned by their parents. The children who refused the Nazi education were often beaten. Most of them were finally transferred to concentration camps (most of the time Kalish in Poland) and exterminated. The others were adopted by SS families.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Lebensborn.html

RED LEBENSBORN

The “Lebensborn” of Radjavi worked beings without family fasteners, insensitive and superbly faithful to the Organization. In Occident, these children allow the movement to collect social assistances. They also take part in the collection campaigns of funds organized on the public highway.

More

If, in spite of these restrictions and handling, somebody tries to leave the Organization of Moujahideen, it is found in the prison of the camp of Achraf, then extradited towards Iran or carried out.


71 posted on 11/20/2008 6:35:55 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia

Thanks for the link and the information.

Incredible.

Ping.


72 posted on 11/20/2008 6:41:01 AM PST by Iowan
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To: All
This piece is to show that the Student Committee for Travel to Cuba was bringing students to Cuba. I have another that I will upload to show that Mercer Island High School was a participent. This piece is referencing '63 and '64; but it isn't limited to those years. One of the organizers of these trips was Phil Luce. He is still alive and in Long Island NY.

Supplemental:

http://goexcelglobal.com/students-cuba-phil_luce.pdf The Cuban Revolution and the Emergence of New York’s Radical Youth, 1961–1965

On 4 July 1963, only about nine months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Premier Fidel Castro in his green beret and combat jacket defeated four American students at table tennis on Veradero Beach in Cuba. Reuters reported that it was a “surprise visit” by Castro to fifty-nine American students who were visiting the island despite the U.S. State Department’s travel regulations. The trips, organized by the Student Committee for Travel to Cuba (SCTC) in 1963 and 1964, were groundbreaking events in the development of student radicalism in the sixties. The U.S. government and the media of the time paid special attention to those students by regarding their activities as marking the emergence of a New Left wing in the U.S.

The American sixties can never fully be understood unless the period is situated in the international context of the post-World War II era, including not only the Cold War relations between the First and Second Worlds but also the entangled web of post-colonial relations among all three worlds. The activities of the SCTC were organized as a publicity campaign of the Progressive Labor Movement (PLM) in New York City, which was a Maoist group that split from the Communist Party USA in the beginning of the sixties. This split not only reflected the international change of Communist leadership but also symbolized the generational shift of American radicalism from the Old Left to the New. The city of New York served as a site for intellectual, cultural, and political interactions that spurred this transformation and enabled the SCTC to send students to revolutionary Cuba. Cuba was a window to the Third World through which radical youths absorbed the rhetoric of anti-imperialism and national liberation. When it was incorporated into the American tradition of civil disobedience, the course for political developments on the streets in the latter half of the sixties was set.

Nevertheless, the movements of Third World-inspired New Leftists, including the PLM and the SCTC, have been neglected by research focused on youth activism in the sixties. The main reason for this is that those stories have never found a comfortable place in the prevailing narrative of the sixties, which is now called the “New Left Consensus.”

Intellectuals of the anti-Vietnam War generation defensively reacted to the assault by conservatives in the eighties and the nineties that the New Left had had a destructive effect on the American political tradition. Exradical scholars, in many cases, veterans of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), asserted their view of the sixties as an era of authentic American protest.

(snip, more at link)

73 posted on 11/20/2008 6:55:00 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Fred Nerks
Hey Fred, you were right, Robeson did lose his passport in the 50s. But I think it was fought in court. See below:

Supplemental:

Travel to Cuba Fact Sheet

The Fight for the Right to Travel to Cuba Chronology

The U.S. has had restrictions on travel to Cuba for most of the past 40 years. While the Constitutional right to travel was technically won in a 1958 Supreme Court decision, the U.S. government and its ideological allies have tried to prevent us from traveling through a variety of legal, extra legal, and illegal means. Since the beginning, people have fought back vigorously and continuously for our right to travel to Cuba.

In the 1950’s the US government attempted to curtail our right to travel through passport controls (either by not issuing a passport to certain persons – Paul Robeson and Rockwell Kent were the most famous) or – when that method failed to survive court challenges – by listing countries in the passport which were ‘invalid’ for travel. When this method also failed in court, the government switched from ‘travel controls’ to ‘currency controls’. The current restrictions on travel to Cuba come under the Treasury Department - and not the State Department- because they have to do with the spending of money by US citizens, residents, and corporations. Of course, these ‘currency controls’ are just a back door method to restrict our right to travel.

(snip)

74 posted on 11/20/2008 7:01:51 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Fred Nerks; RubyR

The Student Committee for Travel to Cuba used some type of diplomatic access/routes. So if Robeson took the kids on a class trip there, his personal passport probably probably wasn’t needed.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB158/19631212.pdf

Excerpt:

(2) We cannot provide protection for personstravelling there through normal diplomatic channels;


75 posted on 11/20/2008 8:03:18 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Iowan; Polarik; Calpernia
After Polarik morphed the two images of Malcolm X and Obama, the resemblances were right there...unfolding before us!


76 posted on 11/20/2008 8:44:20 AM PST by null and void (0bama is Gorbachev treating a dying system with the same poison that's killing it in the first place)
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To: Calpernia
Striking. Very much unlike...


77 posted on 11/20/2008 9:34:29 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Wow, you are right. I didn’t even think of that.

It is like they all cropped up from a radical breeding ground ranch.


78 posted on 11/20/2008 9:52:42 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: pissant

Obama Sr, Coyote Man. :P


79 posted on 11/20/2008 9:55:02 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: null and void

Amazing, isn’t it!

Ping.


80 posted on 11/20/2008 10:58:35 AM PST by Iowan
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