Sherrilyn Ifill is the president & director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc. The views expressed in this commentary are hers.

THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE ARTICLE “CONFESSION OF A GREAT ‘WHITE’ MAN AND LEADER BY MARCUS GARVEY.

This should convince us now that the majority of white people in this country feel as the Ku Klux Klan feels and Mr. Bryan feels, and that is that the power of government should rest not with the Negro race in this country, but should rest with the white men.”