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When Richard Wright Broke With the Communists
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

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