Chapter 4: The Black Man
The Black man, for the first time since he has been in the Western Hemisphere, is accepting himself as a Black man and not as a colored man. Although the Black man has been colored, now the Black man has learned that the coloring was false and that the coloring came from a robber (the devil). After he (the devil himself) had put our Black fathers asleep to the knowledge of their Black selves, the white man pretty nearly destroyed all of the original color of us; and he has added in his own color. Never have we, the Black man, been so happy to be called Black. And the Book (Bible) teaches us that God will come one day and God will choose us, the Black people, to be His people.
We did not know anything about the false color part that God had in mind to remove from us; but now God is here among us; and He is teaching us the knowledge of our color; and we love our own Black color. And now we have learned that the color of our enemy has almost destroyed our original Black; we are now waking up to the knowledge that Black is the first color and the last color, (if there be a last). And now that we have learned that Black is a better color, we want to be Black. You just do not have a better color than Black. Black looks good all of the time. The beautiful part of Black is that we love Black. Since we now have the knowledge of the two colors (Black and the false color), we are separating the original Black color from the false color so that we can preserve our own Black color forever.
The knowledge of Black self, given to us by Him who knows us; we all should be happy and rejoicing to know that we, the Black people were never a wicked people until we followed the wicked one (the white man) after his wickedness. God has declared us, the Black man, to be the righteous and God makes it plain to see why we are the righteous. We are from the righteous Black people by nature. We, the Black man, are righteous by creation, and we cannot be other than righteous. This is the happiest time of our, the Black man's life! It is the happiest time of our life to learn who we are and to learn that who we are, the Black man, is the best of the people!