Negro problem? No. Caucasian problem? You bet!

By a peculiar logical inversion the Anglo-Saxon ruling class, its imitators, accomplices and victims, have come to believe in a Negro problem. With great zeal and industry those controlling the media of information and instruction have succeeded in indoctrinating the whole world with this fiction. 

It is written into the laws, accepted by organized religion; it permeates our literature, distorts our thinking, and is deeply embedded in our customs and institutions. So successful has been this propaganda that even its unfortunate victims often speak of it with the same conviction with which many people talk of guardian angels, ghosts and malignant spirits. 

It is the “stop, thief” technique at its best — a great testimonial to the ingenuity of exploiters with a bad conscience; for while there is actually no Negro problem, there is definitely a Caucasian problem.

Continual reference to a Negro problem assumes that some profound difficulty has been or is being created for the human race by the so-called Negroes. This is typical ruling class arrogance, and, like most of the faiths circulating in our civilization, has no basis in fact. It has been centuries since any Negro nation has menaced the rest of humanity. 

The last of the Moors withdrew from Europe in 1492. Since that time not one of the numerous industrially retarded but socially complex African states has molested the rest of the world with the possible exception of pirates of the Barbary Coast. They have neither possessed the means nor the inclination to do so, and they lived more or less happily in isolation until the coming of the European with his Bibles and bullets.

The so-called Negroes did not inaugurate the trans-Atlantic slave traffic, although some profited from it. They have not invaded anybody’s territory for almost a millennium. They have passed few if any Jim Crow laws, established no Jim Crow customs, set up few white ghettos, carried on no discriminatory practices against whites and have not devoted centuries to propaganda attempting to prove the superiority of Blacks over whites. 

The last Negro writing with that slant was in the Tenth Century. We seek in vain during modern times for any record of Negroes having destroyed any white cultures, having ravished and debauched white women wholesale, or having stolen white manhood. 

On the other hand the history of the world since 1815 is crowded with references to wars, campaigns and expeditions by Caucasian powers against almost every African and Asiatic nation.

Of the international capitalists who control the lives of over a billion colored people, practically all are white, and so, also, are the technicians, brokers, lawyers, generals, admirals, artists and writers who serve them. Colored people are largely excluded from this select group and relegated to the economic fringes of society where labor is long and hard and pay is short and seldom. 

The occasional exception here and there only emphasizes the point. The only sense in which there is or has been a Negro problem is in the colored folk’s natural human aversion and opposition to conquest, enslavement, exploitation and debasement during the long and bloody period of Caucasian military ascendency.                  

This is a portion of George S. Schuyler’s “The Caucasian Problem”; to read the full essay, visit blackagendareport.com.