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The Pro-Japanese Utterances Of W.E.B. Du Bois, Reginald Kearney
The Pro-Japanese Utterances Of W.E.B. Du Bois, Reginald Kearney
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When the United States entered the first world war as a direct participant, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, in a controversial editorial that he would later regret, called upon black Americans to "close ranks" with their white fellow citizens in order to defeat the common German menace. Some years later when his country went to war against Japan, however, Du Bois lacked enthusiasm and issued no such clarion call due to his belief that Japan was a colored nation, that color was a root cause of the war, and that there was "a certain bond between the colored peoples because …