The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06

Peoples
Daily Doiings
BY ISAAC JONES
Incidents That Are Off The Record
In Us. Democracy


and brutalities. in the state OF
Mississippi have finally got the So
called goat" worked-up in the
heart OF a Mississippi white man. .
who takes the time TO write lei
ter TO a colored newspaper for pub
LEGATION telling some OF the treat
ments he saw with his own eyes
given a colored soldier wearing the
uniform Of his country by Missis-
sippis Hitler-hearted police.
His letter tells how this colored
soldier and his girl friend got in
10 an argument in cafe..a few
hicks were passed ~ the soldier;
the law rushed right in without
any investigation and started beat
ing this colored soldier with his
night stick. He said. seeing the
other police beating this colored
soldier another officer came up In
his truck. he struck the soldier
IN the head with a crow-har. then
the Two stood and watched the
mans blood run down the street
Quoting this Mississippi white
man In another paragraph OF his
letter. he said:
-They have stated the same ola
lie 10 the colored people In this
city. telling them that something IS
going TO happen 10 these lynch
leaders. I am n white man hut II
| could get to tell President Roose-
welt Just what ! think about him.
he knows inst like me and the 9TH
ers that the colored man Is fight.
ing Hitler 10 keep him off the
southern white man 80 that he can
Keep on killing the Negro without
being afraid Of the law
This Mississippi white man who
could not identify himself in his
letter has pledged 10 keep this
colored newspaper in which this
letter appeared posted on further
treatment Of colored folks in the
cood-old state OF Mississippi
WE NEED moro white friends
like This In The United S'afes not
only In tho souih-but throughout
Ne country Racial prejudice has
no respect for The part of The
country which II docs nn-American
acts. The only difference Is that
in parts other Than Tho southland
many whites will beat around
tho bush IN tho vital question
but IN actions II has the same
meaning
~ THE nations capital the
taxi cab service IS worst than here
Liam told n you are colored poo
rle travelling 10 and from Wash
inrton find Il difficult 70 get 2 cab
M Tho Union station. Last week a
colored woman arriving in the
Capl'al city from New York with
tho assistance Of red cap OBJ
tanned white cab The red cap
nut her luggage In the cab. As she
VAS ahou, 70 get in, white man
jumped IN the cab over her lug
gage. and called 20 his woman
companion The driver Of the cab
who was white. saw the incident
walked over 10 his cab and In
formed the white man that he
would have 70 get out. That's one
time when right triumphed in
the ns,ions capital without respect
10 race.
WELL. you can classify Or. W
B. Weaihcrford. head of the De-
pariment of humanity at Fisk uni
versliy. as Or Warren Brown
number two" In a speech at
Houston. Texas. last week before q
mixed audience of 1000 colored
and whites. the Fisk university
professor branded all colored
new spapers as propaganda sheets.
He told his audience that he read
forty colored newspapers week
and that you cannot believe
anything that's published in col
ored newspapers Continued the
shot Tennessee professor. :.
Some are not Negro newspapers
but Negro propaganda sheets
preaching hate. No paper is the
friend OF unity--white or Negro
that breaches hate and lack Of
confidence
THAT was just what many OF
Houston white folks wanted 10
hear. but one would think that a
man with the degrees that. DR..
Weatherford has would use better
/ judgment than he used in making
the above speech. Certainly the
race would be much better off
without such men. Or. Weather
ford perhaps thinks that he knows
It all.