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They still have some money and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
In fact the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
If a race has no history if it has no worthwhile tradition it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
Let us banish fear.
If Liberia has failed then it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
The so-called modern education with all its defects however does others so much more good than it does the Negro because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
The mere imparting of information is not education.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto then must not be confined to matters of religion education and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
As another has well said to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.