The broad ax., 1923-01-27
THE MOORFIELD STOREYS,
THE OVINGTONS AND
THE JEWS

The Atlanta Independent" intro
duces its readers to the year 1928 by
almost a whole page of pure rot, de
nouncing" the N. A. A. c. P. and all
its officers. 1t misrepresents the col
ored men and women of the organiza-
ton, and even tries to insult the volun-
tary white workers. 1t roundly cusses
Du Bots, Johnson, White and the
others, and we do not intend to waste
much time on the abuse which the In
dependent" heaps upon these colored
men; they have been cussed before;
they are used to it. During all the
thirteen years in which they have been
building up the first national power Of
the American Negro, they have been
abused-and some Of them before that
time even. And the queer thing is,
that the cussing and abuse have not
done them an accursed bit of good!
1t is surprising how many plain
falsehoods are packed into this single
page of the Independent:
l. That the colored men and women
of the organization are controlled and
bossed by some white people or other,
and that mot a single colored man or
woman has or has ever had any voice
whatsoever" in its control.
2 That people like Mary White
Ovington and Moorfeld Storey are in
the Association because they have
"color prejudice" and want to keep
the Negro downi-As if any white
person on earth who had brains
enough even to desire to keep the Ne
gro down, would not have too much
sense to help the N. A. A. c. P.
g. That some Jews and other white
people are making profits" out of the
Association.
We would rather believe that the
Independent was duped by the fell
low who sent them this article, than
to believe the article expresses the real
views Of that newspaper. The fellow
who wrote the article is without in
Fence in his own community, and the
odd thing is, that no editor who knows
him, would be willing to accept any
kind Of contribution from him
We could believe that some enemy
of the Negro race paid for that page
in the ATLANTA Independent" in order
to try to insult the few white friends
whom the Negro can now count on,
and so drive them away from the Ne
gro's cause-if we did not know that
almost any worth while enemy of the
Negro would have more sense than to
take his lies SO plain and 50 ridiculous
" extreme that nobody would believe
them. For example, take that first lie:
That Du Bots and other colored men
are being 'bossed" BY somebody.
At least all Of the intelligent col
ored people of the United States Know
that about all of the trouble Du Bots
ever had in this world, arose from the
fact that he will not be ''bossed" in
any degree either by white groups or
colored ones. And it is very poor skill
in liar to acuse a man Of having the
very virtue which nearly everybody
else has been cussing him nearly all
his life for not possessing; namely, the
goodness to be ''bossed and con-
aa1-1p A. - .,,,,~L 4La game
with the other colored men Of the or
ganization; some Of them have left
other and easier work because they
would not Be "owned and controlled"
But lie No. 2, is the limit, and sug-
gests TO us that perhaps after all, the
hired liar meant to cheat those who
may have hired him by OVERRIDING the
thing, so that nobody could believe it:
That Miss Ovington, for example, IS