Manning Johnson

Debra

Dagobah Resident
I was sent this video this morning and found it so chillingly relevant.
The narrator quotes a man named Manning Johnson, and his story and information sheds a great amount of light on the Global BLM situation we are witnessing now.


Manning Johnsons book is titled "Color, Communism and Common Sense".
He wrote it in 1958.
I found a web page dedicated to Manning Johnson, and the full manuscript of his book is there as well.
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Kinda reads looks like a word for word play book that is being used today:

From Chapter 7
Creating Hate
[...]
To one familiar with red trickery, it is obvious that placing the blame for all the Negroes’ ills at the door of the white leaders in America is to remove all responsibility from the Negro. This tends to make the Negro:

(a)feel sorry for himself;
(b)blame others for his failures;
(c)ignore the countless opportunities around him;
(d)jealous of the progress of other racial and national groups;
(e)expect the white man to do everything for him;
(f)look for easy and quick solutions as a substitute for the harsh realities of competitive struggle to get ahead.
The result is a persecution complex—a warped belief that the white man’s prejudices, the white man’s system, the white man’s government is responsible for everything. Such a belief is the way the reds plan it, for the next logical step is hate that can be used by the reds to accomplish their ends.[...]



The recording of his speech gave me chills.

Here is comment from the back of the recorded speech, written by Vick Knight

"Manning Johnson was an American Negro who loved his country, and he loved it enough that he saw beyond Uncle Tom—and what he saw there was Uncle Sam.

A Communist of stature within the international conspiracy, Manning Johnson had the strength to renounce Communism when he discovered for certain that its purpose was to use the Negro as a device to help commit all Americans of all colors to a slavery far worse than anything the pre-emancipation American Negro had ever experienced.

You are about to listen to Manning Johnson’s Farewell Address. It differs from traditional farewell addresses in that Johnson did not know that this was to be his final speech. He died shortly after the speech was delivered.
[...]
We preserve the speech on this record for posterity, and we present it with malice toward none. But rather with the belief that had its wisdom and sheer logic reached enough Americans at the time the speech was made the Communist never could have succeeded in provoking the violence and insurrection that we have unhappily witnessed.

Now, Manning Johnson. At the time someone turned on a tape recorder he was discussing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.[...]
 
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