It is easy to win applause and approval among our people by charging every one of our shortcomings up to the white people. But, just the same, it isn't true. For instance: the white people, instead of being responsible for color prejudice among us, have done their best to discourage it by calling us all by the same contemptuous epithets and by lynching and jim crowing us impartially.

The Roots of Power. Boston Chronicle (June 21, 1924)