WORLD WIDE AFRICA THE VOICE OF THE PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT

Tonight's show will be on the OF THE RULING OF MEN an essay written in DARKWATER BY W.E.B.  DuBois.  

"There are people who insist upon regarding the franchise, not as a necessity for the many, but as a privilege for the few. They say of persons and classes : "They do not need the ballot." This is often said women. It is argued that everything which women with the ballot do for themselves can be done for them that they have influence and friends "at court," and that their enfranchisement would simply double the number of ballots. So too, we are told that American Negroes can have done for them by other voters all that they could possible do for themselves with the ballot and much more because the white voters are more intelligent.

Further than this, it is argued that many of the disfranchised people recognize these facts.m " Women do not want the ballot" has been a very effective counter war cry, so much so that men have taken refuge in the declaration: "When they want to vote, why, then--" So, too, we are continually told that the "best" Negroes stay out of politics. "