"Jews are all Communist, and Communism wants to exploit the Negro just like the White man. I wouldn't lift my finger to save a Jew . . . we came here against our will. They brought us here as slaves and they've treated us slaves. We owe nothing to America. America owes everything to us. This isn't my culture. Cooks isn't my name. This isn't my home. My home and my culture and my name are in Africa. I'm a foreigner here. I'm a persecuted man here. I'm hated here. But I tell you what I am right now - I am a Black nationalist: and I want the colored people to live like colored people. I want colored people to have their own civilization, their own government, their own cities, their own officials. I want the Black man to go back to Africa, and I'll back up anybody that says 'Africa for the Africans.'" -- Carlos Cooks.
"I reject completely the theory that the Negro must give unquestioning obedience to the State and its leaders. We feel no enmity with people of the totalitarian powers, especially Japan. The Japanese have never lynched or exploited the Negro . . . Between Nazism and Democracy, the two evils, I would choose Nazism, for the Blacks can sink no lower than they have today in America." -- Carlos Cooks.
"The Blacker the Negro, the finer the Negro. The Blacker the Negro, the greater credit he is to his race. Mulattoes are bastards. They are enemies of the Black Negro. We want an Empire of Blacks in Africa. We want nationhood based exclusively on Black men. The salvation of my race is a religion with me. What Hitler said about the nobility of the Aryans, also applies to us about the nobility of the Negro." -- Samuel W. Daniels.
Source for the quotes:
Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America by John Roy Carlson.
Would it at all be possible for the Free African Legion to instead find a basis in African-American volunteers? Considering the tendency of militant Black nationalists in the 20th Century to advocate for an "emigrationist" stance and the establishment of an African Empire, could it be possible for a "Tuskegee Legion" to come into existence at some point during WWII? I know this seems really out there but it's an interesting thing to contemplate.