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KNOW YOUR
BLACK HISTORY
by Larry Thompson
The Black man, from the earliest times to the present, has
excelled in every area, contrary to the belief that we have only
excelled in the areas of sports and entertainment. The men in this
week’s article are just a few who excelled in other fields.
Juan de Pareja, a famous pupil of the Spanish painter,
Velasquez, was born in Seville, Spain in 1606. This Black man was
bought on the slave market in the year of 1623. His duties as a
slave included grinding the colors, keeping the brushes clean and
making sure that the studio was kept clean and orderly. Since it
was illegal for slaves to be taught to paint or anything of that
nature, Juan, was not allowed to study with his master. But Juan
being an extremely perceptive and gifted young man, took
advantage of every opportunity he could to try to paint on his
own. He seemingly “responded to the canvas as if by magic.”
Juan had the chance to go to Rome in 1649 with Velasquez,
and was exposed to the great Italian painters. When Juan de
Pareja was in his forties, he began on a painting of his own,
carefully concealing it from his master.
Finally, as a result of this secret painting, Juan’s fate changed
in 1651 after returning to Spain. Philip IV, who had become a
regular visitor of Velasquez accidentally came upon the slave’s
work. The king recognizing the value of the work and the obvious
talent of Juan, ordered Velasquez to free him of his bondage, as a
reward instead of the punishment Juan must have certainly
expected. He then became a student of Velasquez and developed
into one of the greatest religious portrait painters. He was also
well-known as the subject of one of Velasquez’s masterpieces, a
beautiful portrait of an African slave, which has been exhibited in
Rome. Today this portrait of Juan de Pareja is one of the most
expensive paintings in the world. Recently it sold for a record
price.
Some of Juan de Pareja’s works were indistinguishable from
Velasquez; but most showed evidence of his individual genius
and others reflected the style of the best schools in Genoa and
Venice, and the influence of the Flemish masters. Among his
works are “The Presentation of Christ at the Temple,” “Baptism
of Christ,” which is now in the Santa Trinidad Gallery in Toledo,
“The Calling of St. Matthews” which is now in the Prado Gallery
in Madrid.
Juan de Pareja, the great Black Spanish artist died in 1670.
While other races have their dynasties of heroes and heroines to
boast of, the Black race has its dynasties also.
One such dynasty was the Dumas dynasty.
Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, born in 1762, took
his mother’s name, Dumas, beginning the dynasty of the three
Dumases in Modern French History. His mother was a Black
woman of Santa Domingo, his father a Marquis.
Thomas received his education at Bordeaux. And in 1789 he
enlisted in the French army to fight for the cause of “liberty,
equality, and fraternity” in the French Revolution. In 1792 he
distinguished himself for bravery and endurance and advanced to
the rank of General, becoming commander of the army of the
Pyrenees in 1793 and campaigned with Napoleon Bonaparte in
Italy, in the Tyrol and in Egypt. General Dumas hated the
cruelties committed in the name of the Republic. When he found
out that Napoleon intended to create an empire instead of
keeping a Republican government, he didn’t hide his
dissatisfaction and asked to return home from the campaigns.
Enroute home he was captured by the Bourbon government of
Naples and imprisoned for two years. Napoleon never forgave
General Dumas for disapproving his endeavors, consequently the
General was forced to retire with a very small pension, and died
in poverty in 1806. He left a widow, a daughter and a son,
Alexandre, who became one of the literary geniuses of France.
Alexandre the General’s son, second of the Dumas dynasty
born in 1802, was known as a “prolific French novelist and
playwright of the nineteenth century.” Alexandre began his
education at the age of three under a tutor secured by his mother.
Alexandre, father at this time, leaving the family in poverty.
Therefore it was a necessity for the young Dumas to find
employment at an early age. First he worked as a clerk in a
notary’s office; then later he was a copying clerk in the office of
the Duke of Orleans, at the same time studying the sciences,
languages and literature to improve his education. His drama,
“Henri 111 and His Court”, was a great success, bringing overnight
success to him. He was appointed assistant librarian in the Palais
Royal as a result of that successful drama. Alexandre Dumas is
credited with . introducing through his plays the Romantic
movement to the French stage. He produced over 300 volumes of
novels, memoirs and travel books and 25 volumes of dramas.
Three of his famous novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The
Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, have been popularized by the
movie industry and can still be seen on television.
During the revolution of 1848, he had to flee to Switzerland
because he was a supporter of the French Republic. The second
Dumas, as did the first, died leaving Iris family in poverty, in
1870.
The last of the Dumas Dynasty was born Alexandre also, in
1824. He became renown as both a philosopher and reformer as
well as a writer. His writings were revolutionary in fighting
prejudice and for equality for the unfortunate. Alexandre first
wrote poetry, then turned to drama and the novel. But he was
mainly concerned with the moral and the social question of the
French Society. He gained recognition as a reformer through the
work, The Sins of Youth. Alexandre’s works, as were those of his
father,Alexandre,arestill popular on the stage. He was a member
ot the French Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1874, a privilege
which had been denied his father. Alexandre Dumas, writer,
reformer and philosopher, the last of the Dumas Dynasty died in
1895.
Though Alexandre Dumas’ death brought about the abrupt end
of the great, renown Dumas Dynasty, it did not conclude the
achievements of Blacks in every field that lay open for conquest.
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racial resolutions, if he had
any, fade and are eventually
lost. If he fights the mold, they
poke derisive fun at him and
make him appear ludicrous.
One can’t act like a “nigger” in
suave white surroundings.
White liberals listen with
compassion to his now
guilt-ripened pleas for help for
his black brothers back in the
ghetto. They throw him a few
crumbs of appeasement. But
soon he becomes worthless to
us and priceless to them. He
has lost his power to lead us, to
hurt them. In his thinking and
love for the creative comforts,
he becomes one .of their troops
in all respects save for his
color. He helps them to repress
and enslave his own kind.
White liberals do not get as
upset as white conservatives
about sex between white
tramps and “niggers” because
they know that those white
girls who do spend time with
“niggers” are nothing more
than dregs settled at the
bottom of the social barrel.
Historically and appropriately,
the sexual peccadillos of the
dregs are the petty province of
conservatives, red necks, white
trash and the hysterical slobs.
The typical flower of white
womanhood by training and
breeding would rather be dead
than have sexual congress with
a “nigger.” They feel that the
“niggers” and the dregs will
always be at the bottom of the
barrel.
The League’s and other
Black Uncle Toms’ future in
the seventies look bleak in the
face of rising black militancy
and its predictably primitive
policy for blacks who delude
and hustle other blacks in the
ghetto. And the white man’s
future looks less than bright as
he turns on his own young like
a rabid wolf to crush their
dissent against racism, poverty
and war.
Much of the white man’s
bestial cruelty toward his own
young is possibly rooted in the
traumatic realization that, in
the wake of the black
revolution, young whites in
alar mi ng numbers have
rapturously embraced the
black life style, its soul-laced
music, speech idiom and
over-all social attitudes.
Certainly this wholesale
imitation of and compassion
for the blacks would indicate
unprecedented and imminent
possibility for wholesale sexual
congress with blacks. The
“niggerization” of his young
has thrown the white man off
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PATRICK LEWIS
Patrick Lewis was recently
baptized at Mount Zion A.M.E.
Church by Reverend Robert L.
Postell. He is the son of Mrs.
Vivian Lewis, the grandson of
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Terrell of
Augusta, Ga. Patrick is the
great grandson of Willie Hazel
Johnson of Augusta and the
great great grandson of Mrs.
Bertha Parnell of Waynesboro,
Georgia.
balance not only because of his
classic paranoiac concern for
that mythic sanctity of white
womanhood, but also because
of a potential white coalition
with the black revolution.
These of course are
secondary fears plaguing the
white man. His central fears are
when and where the fanatical
bombers of the new left will
strike and what is the true
quantity and quality, ultimate
objectives and specific location
of the unpredictable enemy.
This is why J. Edgar Hopver
places so much emphasis on
the leadership in the black
movement. The F. 8.1. followed
Dr. King. They placed Angela
Davis on the 10 most-wanted
list.
The white man’s dire
situation has arisen not only
because he offers no moral
leadership, but because his use
of repressive force instead of
dialogue in dealing with young
disenchanted Americans
prevents him from examining
and correcting the escalating
rage and terror. A police state
created ostensibly for the
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the people. Historically, in the
face of repression beyond the
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populace has risen up in
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government ignorant of this
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The white man, the power
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unreasoning cruelty, arrogance,
fear and rage that in the violent
seventies it could well drown in
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