The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-12
Cunard
SIaps Whites
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exposed and bitterly attacked by
Miss cunnard. Much Of her ma
tefial on injusdces to the colored
man is taken from the weekly
press.
She describes the N.A.A.C.P. a
reactionary organic stion" and says
Of DR.. Dubois. we find him and
other heads of the N.A.AC.P. do
ing nothing whatever IN the way
Of organizing to get their rights
for the black people,"
Harlem Given Black Eye
The author flays Harlem for its
attempts to draw lines Of social
cleavage. She says:
IF treachery and lying are its
main attributes, so Is sne55sry
flourishing in certain parts of Har-
lem. "srivers' Row." that is what
both Street has been called.
An excellent covering name for
those "Astorperious Philippians" as
one Of their own wits put it.
There are meanwhile cliques. mu-
latto groups, dark-slsinned sets who
viii not invite each other to their
houses: some would not let white
cross their thresholds.
THE colorsd bluebloods of Wash
ington are famous for their social
exclusively; there are some In Har-
lem, too. don't know If a for
eign white would get In there, pos
sibly not. The snobbery around
skin-color is terrifying"
Press Is Yellow
In a chapter on 1.-THE American
Moron and the American Of Sense"
the author Is bitter in condemning
yellow press" methods which she
describes as "inventing as vulgar
and sexy a story as possible, to
which any official denial merely
adds another special edition"
THE American public" she has
written, lis intended to believe that
no white person has ever stayed
in Harlem before. But everyone
knows that thousands of whites &C
tually live II. Harlem, married TO
colored people or domiciled there
"A reporter goes around trying
to bride the hotel people into say
ing that such and such a colorel
person is staying there commun-
icating rooms, etc. (This is the
case in my own experience.)" she
writes.
Gets Sexy Letters
Letters which she terms as 'rav-
ing, illiterate and anonymous
some very funny, indeed, mainly
from sex maniacs were received
by Miss cunard during her sojourn
in the United States. Among those
received were the following:
Miss Nancy Cunard repair to
pay ransom $4,000 dollars will be
demanding kidnapping H--B Kid
Inc.
-. Either give up sleeping
with a n or take the consequent
ces. This is final. x22. P. S. We
will not only take you but Wen
take your n lover with yoL
-. Back to where you belong
you b.. You for your nerve should
be burned alive to stake, vou
dirty low-down betraying piece of
xxx, SO w. SO.
Other Letters Praise
There were other letters, how
ever, of opposite nature. One sign
ed letter said: IT am proud of you
as a girl to come out and stand up
for colored people"
Another, from the headmaster
of a California school, said: 1T is
very gratifying to know that in
these trying days someone deserts
the great make-believe world and
devotes her time to a real prob
lem dealing with humans"
In Jamaica, Miss Cunard saw
Carney, deported from the
United States for his activities with
the Universal Negro Improvement
Association. OF Carney she said:
HE does not see that the white
will never GIVE, but
that they must be FORCED"
Resents Race Hatreds
Smouldering resentment against
color determinations, which flares
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