The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-06-21
Fight Is On DC. Columnist Says
In Condemnation Of Monkey Men
begged. The whole man begged

begged. The whole man begged
"Well-dressed. wen-.ed ,so.,.
passed. Finally. a fat man YIN =
fat belly and fat cigar and 4 q,
bulldog on chain. dropped coin
into the monkeys wet hat lmme'
diately, the money jumped 10 ana
down with joy. he bowed and rw'
many monkey-shine. He ran ~
to his master and talked exclredlv
in his monkey language Yes NJ
Was thankful monkey. The r,
man grinned a superior grin and
thanked God that he wasn't ike ina
monkey.
"A Big Fool Monke, Man
II get big kick oui OF readirs
the poems Of Sterling Brown Inn
looking now at the odyssey 81 AZ
Boy You know, OF course. ab.o,
Big Boy. He'd been everywhere
seen everybody, and known every.
thing. He'd done all kinds Of work
He'd loved all kinds OF women
Big Boy said.
Had stoyepipe blonde m Macon.
Waller gal in Marylan
In Richmond had chokln brown
Called me huh monkey man
Huh big tool monkey man.
Big Boy was honest H. dldnt
try To fool msei--like some Ne.
gro misleaders. Big BOY knew that
chocplate-brown in Richmond did.
mt mean him any good Biz Boz
knew he was-to that dame moth
ing but a fool monkey man
So I'm thinking about ihs, mon.
key on ll6th street. and BIZ Boy
in Sterling Browns poem md
Black America in our verbal ne.
mocracy. What j. the CONNECTION,
Well give me chance. ! think
see something.
Take the monkey Nuuc can dress
him up and place him Al buns
2x4 table Then he'll stair monkey.
INK. II you drop plugged nickel
in his hat he'll start monkeying. A
monkey is grateful for evev mite.
The same thing is true ~ monkey
man, when he gets crazy about a
certain dame. He'll hneh-hike a
million miles for one OF her smiles.
She may two-time him aud forty
time him. and still the monkey
man will play the fool
-Black America Has lts
Monkey Men.
And we shall have many mere
The Angle-Saxon IS facing he
worst crisis in his history He
knows that better than Sambo
Therefore. the white man. IN order
To get the support 81 black men IL
going TO drop plugged an, inlo
the Negroes hat Yes the white man
is going 10 grin at Samb0 now ard
then. The white man Will place
Sambo at the kitchen table and give
Samho some Mulliran STOW ard
few stale hicuits-in the name u
Democracy.
BLACK America is going 20 -eea
tribe OF black monkey MN, What
do ! mean? Wait q minute 4 few
big Negroes are going 10 be Siyeu
few so-called big JOBS Tasa
they'll do exactly what that moa-
key did on ll6th Street These
monkey misleaders are roine 70
bow and scrape and cut million
patriotic monkey-shnes
"Dr. Monkey Van will sa p ne
little Sambos and AUni Hleafs'
Friends. Countrymen and FELLOW
Citizens, lend me your ears ! ,oms
to bury Jim Grow not % praise
him. what you need IS farm ~
faith. oh. wonderful faith faN1
gave us chittlings when az wire
folks had the whole h3g faja
gave us the chicken feet 4ad F''
card. when the white folks had rs
whole chicken. Faith, ah FaNa'
Faith OF our fathers and s"'he-
fathers, without faith ld never
have got this 5.00O-huck p'srior.
tell the madame and kid, We
blessed - thrice blessed "
course, there arc inequalities down
Here. but-but there WIZ n-
none Over There. in the S@ee' ~
and BY. Or Nicodemus ne famous
economic adviser 20 the Ffesl0'n'
told me. in an economic conference
to bring YOU message Of ial'' 49,
faith faith :. Faith
~The Fight Is ON. =.
To-day the Negro masse, az.
their courageous intellectuai' ~
not going 10 stand any mon%'
business from black MONKEY nls"
We demand pobs mot rlalNuue'
Wages mot charity pemoer"',
not ck-scratehing. Smesrins NJ
gro heroes will not cover up ~
vital issues. We Negroes are CONS
10 keen the books ourselves W.
not going TO stand for any pan.
ton system of checks by. N'N'V
phobes and monkey misleao''N
"The fight is on for Negro ,nsa
hood and womanhood. We WIZ ~.
accept any crumbs that iall ~
the white House table. We Neh,us.
arc going to see that Hiiler o .s.
not cross the Atlantic Ana 10 ~
meantime. we're going 20 CIV s,,,.
Cracker Hitlers on this side o''''
krieg of the Constitution.
"The fight IS on. Race pr'll,o,s
must 20. Jim Grow jobs sn"ll ~
rubbed out. Wen tolerate no 'no
monkey business. We have Kan
list for the monkey men. we shsr
walk hard and talk loud. we ~" ,oe
hit Judge Lynch harder ina" ~
Louis hit Buddy Baer AZ,
"On July we shall ha'e n
thousand black men and women ,.. !.
the Negro March for Jons anu an, IA