On a Friday in early June 1941, Richard Wright addressed the opening
session of the Congress in Defense of Culture in New York City. “Some of
you may wonder why a writer, at a congress of writers, should make the
theme of war the main burden of a public talk,” he began. He explained
that it was for the simple reason that few things mattered “one-half as
much.” Then he laid out his case against American involvement in World
War II, claiming that the country’s intervention was not likely to
change the outcome, that peace was the most radical course of action,
and that Black Americans had no reason to fight on behalf of a country
that denied their humanity. “Our primary problem,” he said, is “a
problem concerned with the processes of democracy at home.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/162080/richard-wright-broke-communists-man-lived-underground
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