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checked race for profit submits us all.

Holding on to cictories [sic] won only twenty short years ago requires that no method or means ought to be discounted.

Even one less valued now – appeals to conscience, justice and fair play – ought be employed; a people in extreme cannot afford to turn their back on any possible weapon which may produce the motive for doing right.

Doing right, after all, is what this life is all about.

Over three quarters of a century ago, the late scholar W.E.B. DuBois put down on paper an antidote to the kind of political violence he saw about him them, and we yet see about us today.

He said then:

"I believe in God who made of one blood all nations that dwell on earth. I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibilty of infinite development.

Especially do I believe in the Negro race; in the beauty of its genius, the sw-etness of its soul, and its strength in that meekness which shall inherit this turbulent earth.

I believe in pride of race and lineage itself; in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they