Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-05
The Negro In Last Weeks
Mississippi Crime News

Readers of the daily papers, and those who listen for
news and comment radio in Mississippi and throughout
the nation could not have failed to been more than
little shocked and startled by the reports of the Negro
in the crime in Mississippi during that week Negroes
charged with the of white with the murder and
ROBBERY of an aged white Negroes charged with muir
der and robbery of white youthful Negroes sentenced
TO die In the states portable electric chair for the murder and
robbery of aged white farmer presented in the News
paper headlines and via the radio drew sordid picture for
the state the nation and the world Mississippi Ne
gro and presented him his worse in his relations to
and with ms white neighbors and fellow citizens
Coming at time when widespread consideration is beino
gwen by intelligent white friends in Mississippi as we'll as
IN every other state to the question improving the stains
OF the Negro as citizen and of his being fully in
tegrated into the civic and political life the state and ma
non and at time when the Negro question conditions
OF race relations brought by the necessities Of war have
produced and heightened growing case and kind of inter
racial apprehension the of Negroes in Crime Msss
spp last week has aroused the deepest thought and
OF all intelligent Negroes of the state they everywhere
express universal condemnation of the crimes And be-
cause OF The existing tendency very widely held
white people to condemn the whole NEGRO for the
crimes OF one or few intelligent and thoughtful Negroes
throughout the nation must be deeply this
bad news.
And we'll might the intelligent Negroes of Mississippi
and throughout the nation be thoughtful
this bad news because first view and taken
value it constitute most serious and far reaching ndct
ment and condemnation our aspirations for full citizen
ship status and recognition.
That Negroes thoughtful concerned over crimes
committed by Negroes against White people, particularly the
crime OF rape we'll be from letter mentioned edi
toray and published in full in the Chicago Defender last
week, written TO the editor OF the Defender
Brown, Camp Claiborne Louisiana in which Brown Ne
gro bames Negroes for southern troubles because
crimes committed against white people, Evidently ember-
ed because of the constantly recurring charge of rape and
other crimes committed against white people made against
members of his race and anXousy DESTROYS are nte
gent Negroes everywhere TO live in harmony goodwill
with his fellow white citizens and neighbor whatever can
be- be said about the letter this new prophet of
race relations it must be said that coulageousy he stands
himself up and in bitter self criticism and con-
demnation.
In every instance, the Negroes charged with having
committed helnous and brutal in Mississippi last
week. as we'll as those who condemned for such
crimes already committed will be found to be Negroes most
y youths of the most bect ignorance suffering from rsy
geological Illustration and spiritual and moral mbecty the
results OF conditions existing in Mississippi with respects 20
Negro life and development in everyway calculated to pro-
6uce such crimes.
Like MIR Brown, taking last weeks news at face yalue
and upon first view thousands Negroes in Mississippi and
throughout the nation will nc and condemn themselves in
KIND OF racial seeffacng regret others everywhere will
JON IN condemnation and Indictment Negro race But
upon any consideration of the Negroes who committed and
VINO commits such crimes, and of the condition to aroe
extent under which they must live and develop conditions
with the greater tendency towards breeding such crimes and
CRIMINALS 1t will be found that the Negro in the Crime News
MISSISSIPPI last week was also Indictment and condem-
nation of the entire state