Claude McKay

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Claude McKay, influential Jamaican and leading figure in the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s, through his writings spoke out against racism...One of his most memorable poems, "If We Must Die" was written during a period of violence against Blacks, called the Red Summer. The poem was also quoted by Churchill in attempting to secure US involvement to fight Germany in what became World War II.