The True Negro Renaissance
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Dear Harlem, did you forget the South too? That the Negros you and your baby sister Chicago harvested from our bosom have abandoned their families, and right to a happy life? I pity the industrial drones compelled to a life devoid from the homes that raised you up to feel so empowered to write your works and pretend to be the white man! Tell Carl-Van Vetchen how he enjoys your money in his pocket, and continues to bamboozle the likes of Helga Crane, the so-called “negro-ess”.
Leave it to the likes of spaces in the North to give too much power to the women who are victims to their own wild imagination! How the North will leave you to a life of SIN! You brag, and boast that the likes of Richard Wright have ‘escaped’ to the North but I say that is where he met his grave. The true Negro Renaissance exists in Naxos, and away from the whites who only wish to see us dance and skip like a good puppet would. You dare think you’re better than me? Think twice before you state who is the true forgotten legacy of our people…