Wright initially distrusted the Communist Party as a white man’s organization

Evidence

Before that evening of his intellectual conversion he had looked upon the party as a white man’s organization and therefore something to be distrusted, especially in its pretensions concerning Blacks. More important, until that moment he had dismissed as a personal fantasy, as a painful, frustrating dream, the organization of the poor and oppressed. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1353