Color, Communism, and Common Sense - A True Story

The heavy hand of  communism has stirred up racial strife, creating confusion, hate, and bitterness so essential to the advancement of the red cause.—Manning Johnson

The words penned in Color, Communism, and Common Sense by Manning Johnson in 1958 eerily resonate with the troubled atmosphere that arose in 2020 and remains embedded today in our Western culture.

Manning Johnson spent ten years as a high-ranking member of the Communist Party of the USA, believing that the Party could help the conditions of black people in America at that time.

When finally realizing that the Communist Party was not helping but actually harming black people and using them for its own purposes, Johnson left the Party and spent the rest of his life warning about communism.

This special 2021 edition includes photos, illustrations, and two bonus sections about current affairs in the 21st Century: Critical Race Theory and the Church and S Is for Social Justice: The Language of Today’s Cultural “Revolution.”

And let us pray and work, that the misunderstanding, the bitterness, the hate, and the frustration, and the tension that exists may disappear and that the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Charity may prevail again amongst our people. —Manning Johnson, 1959

Table of Contents

PART 1: Color, Communism, and Common Sense

Note From the Editors at Lighthouse Trails
1958 Foreword
1/In the Web
2/Subverting Negro Churches
3/Red Plot to Use Negroes
4/Bane of Red Integration
5/Destroying the Opposition
6/The “Real” Uncle Toms
7/Creating Hate
8/Modern-day Carpet Baggers
9/Race Pride Is Passé
10/Wisdom Needed
Epilogue

Manning Johnson’s Final Address
Appendix A: Testimony of Judge James A. Cobb
Appendix B: Affidavit From Kelly Miller
Appendix C: Memorandum From Lawrence A. Oxley
Appendix D: The New Deal
Appendix E: Howard University 

PART II: Fast Forward

Critical Race Theory and Today’s Church
S Is for Social Justice: The Language of Today’s Cultural “Revolution”