I thought the December 2017 publication of The Crisis fit particularly well for this week's The Crisis and Keene readings because Emmett Scott has a section called "The Negro and the War Department." When reading Scott's piece in The Crisis, I at first expected it to be a more outright display of dissatisfaction. However, after reading Keene's chapter, I was not surprised. Keene talks about Scott in "Images of Racial Pride: African American Propaganda Posters in the First World War." Keene quotes Scott when discussing some of the posters for the Fourth Liberty Loan posters that depicted black soldiers. Keene notes that while Emmett Scott exalts that the people at home are "duty bound" to help soldiers, the posters do not reflect the fact that most of the African American soldiers from America were actually fighitng in France (Keene 220-1). However, when reading the section from the December 1917 The Crisis, it made sense that Emmett Scott would be supportive of the Liberty Loans because he is cited as being the Special Assistant to the Secretary of War (The Crisis 76). While within his piece he recognizes that anyone who knows the history of African Americans in America know that there will be difficulties with African Americans being in the war, he states that he thinks the Secretary of War is doing what he can to make the African American soldiers be treated as well as possible, but he also notes that he recognizes that the Secretary of War has not recognized specific African American soldiers in any of his talks in the way he has with other soldiers, he has merely said that the race as a whole is doing well (76). This all seems to fit with what Keene is saying, which is that while Scott thought that these posters were okay becuase he saw them as reinforcement that the people at home must take action, others saw it as reinforcement that there was a feeling within the army that African American soldiers were left to do the dirty work of digging trenches and like things (Keene 221). It seems that Emmett Scott's portrayal of the war in his piece is distinctly different from what other people were feeling at the time. It struck me as odd that this would be included within The Crisis. Is it here because of the turn to acceptance of the war that The Crisis took after America entered the war?