The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-09-22
Some Advice To
White People

ficult of solution because the white man
persists in denying the Negro the COM
mon rights of man and regards him
as an "untouchable." In Alabama alone
justice for him in the court has become
a byword all over the nation; his
schools, for the most part, are pitiable
shacks except in a few cities; the
schools term for Negro children is dis
grace and his teachers are pitifully paid
On the plantation he is exploited and
denied the right CT collective bargain
ing" and his women are insulted with
impunity. The white Church as a rule
breaches beautifully about Brother
hood but deny it in life. AS long as
this situation obtains the Nero pro-
blem" will be difficult of solution
1t is not difficult in Brazil it is not
difficult in Cuba; it is not difficult in
France; it is not difficult in Russia. 1t
is only difficult in America and Eng
land where fool notions of Anglo-Sax-
On purity and supremacy obtain
The Christian Index does not pre-
sumo to offer advice that will entirely
settle the race problem but at this par
ticular time we dare to offer some sug-
gestions that might prove helpful.
The hest Negroes of the South want
- Z x1rIth
white people but they want that friend
ship on the basis of manhood and wo-
manhood, not on a presumed status o.
inferiority or by recognizing that ne
has a place" which place" is even
beneath the white gan -ster or the
white prostitute. He does net want %
live in he same house with the white
man nor be his brother in-law, but he
does want identical treatment in the
courts. at the ballot box, in the schools
and the same respect he pays to the
white woman shown to the black wo-
man by the white man.
Some of the most dependable friends
the Negro has ever had have been
Southern white men; more OF the type
of Bishop Galloway, Bishop Haygood'
Alva Taylor, ]. W. Perry, George VIII
liams Walker will never be forgotten
but we can't say that for the average
white man CT the South. If the aver
age" white man Of the South had llVeo
up to his holy pretensions on SUNDAY
tho race situation would be different,
Attorney General Mcknight referring
r. the Scottsboro Jurors and the pe0-
nle around Decatur says that they re-
nresent the "avera-e" people OF inc
South. If that is true, God help the
South.
Our good friend the Alabama AdVo-
cate thinks that we should show our
anpreciation for the kindness OF the
Southern white man by not accepting
helm of foreigners and the presence OF
white attorneys from the North insln-
mates that the Negro can't get justice
in the Courts of Alabama. We would De
Glad if the Advocate would take the
files of the courts in Alabama IN case
where the Negroes have been involved
AGAINST white man and then give the
world the verdict. The Nero does no'
gat the same even handed justice II
Alabama. or any where else IN inc
South that the white man gets.
Had it not been for interference
from foreigners seven ScottsDor0
bovs would have been rottenlng IN
their graves by now and yet the Unit
ed States Supreme Court says they
did not have fair trial.
Yes, the Negro leaders should preach
against the assault of white women by
Negro men" and the white leaders ana
preachers should preach against the
rape and assault of Ne TO women by
white men. Will the Alabama Advo-
cate kindly tell us why there are SO
MANY mullatoes in Alabama?
Over one-half of these rape stories
have proven to be his concocted either
by white men caught in their devil
ment or by white women who consort
with Negroes and suddenly get AFRAID
of public opinion.
Whv if the Negro is so criminal, does
it not show in Chicago, New York, Bra
iii. Louisville, Cleveland? Why does the
record show more assaults on Negro
women and more concubinage and mis-
cegnation in the South by white men
if the Southern white man is a paragon
of virtue and lover OF racial integrity!
Why, if the Southern white man Is
the hest friend of the Negro, do not