Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1937-09-01

to impending dangers up in the thicket of the
fray singing "There Will Be Hot Time In The Old Town
Tonight"
In the battles of Gettysburg and New Orleans, and
many other battles in which the Negro fought during
the great civil strife he lacked courage nor vaor
but shed his lifes blood for his freedom and citizenship
But does he enjoy them? Like other things his brother
in white has robbed him Of his standing as rghtfu cit
Would not your dear mother hang her head in shame.
to know that her the pride Of her life the happi-
ness of her future should advocate the Lynch Law for
any race Would not that mother her lose pres
tge and standing in the eyes of the fair minded men and
women of this and other communities.
Wrong and wrong doors exist but for a season.
In the end right must and will prevail What would
have the awful result if many of who occupy our
local jails and penentares had been black men, in
stead of white they are and the white man with
his lynch law had been given full sway; think
eth in his heart so is he
| am proud to know that those who make and exc
cute the laws CT California are the most part sober
minded men. Men who believe in justice and culture to
the extent to elevate themselves above the thought
the lynch law, and when man, after being given fair
trial is found to be criminal by such men, regardless of
color creed previous condition of servitude criminals
portion melted out to him. thus the laws of the land
upheld and this to my mind is the only safe and
honorable in which justice may be accorded to any
man of men.
My heart rejoices to know that in the North, East
or West the Negro is seldom charged with any unspeak-
able offense North of the Mason and Dixon line the
white have the monopoly over all the most
heinous crimes. In view of this fact it is but fair
gument to state that the Negro is not guilty of half
the crimes attributed to him here in the South where he
knows the immediate result Of the slightest express
sion Of thought along such outrageous lines.
The percentage of all crimes committed here in the
South shows the white far in the lead criminal.
Every crime known mankind is committed daily by
members of the white Yet in the face of this
deniable truth, the white recommends his Lynch
Law only when a member Of the black race happens to
be the offender.
AS cure for the littleness of thought and shallow
ness of soul that the white possesses should like
lynch black man. it is also right to lynch white
and if it wrong lynch white man, it is also wrong
to lynch black do not ask for my protection
in wrong doing all | ask is justice and fair play.
When the white happens to become the recpi-!
ent of the vengeance of those who have taken the law in
to their hands Immediately vigorous protest is!
flashed around the entire globe charged to its full capa
shakes old glory to her very foundation and it seems
for that permanent step about to be-
taken to rid this country of its greatest enemy, namely
the American infamy lynch law.
Indeed such a protest is timely one for de-
sruction alone follow the wake of laWless mob,
whether its object be black white.
During the days of the Confederacy when the white