The Omaha guide., 1943-04-03


brought them over heer to work for
us and for you and you Shouldn't
associate with them at ALL We
also have personal knowledge Of
the fact that some of these same
white officers had Negro soldiers
tanning the flies away from them
while the former ate their meals.
This chaplain is in possession of
the real facts about this coast
artillery regiment and we know
that these enlisted men are telling
the truth about the bad and unjust
treatment hey received from their
superior officers who never read a
Nego newspaper and never tried
to understand or find out anything
about the Negroes condition.
I'm our opinion the whole trou-
bic with that unit is that the Ne
gro soldiers in the South Sea Is
lands are fighting two battles ard
two wars, one against the Japs and
an ever greater war against the
green eyed monster, ace prejudice
the latter being a disease that has
cprad through the whole body of
humanity and is Contrary to all
the teachings and convictions of
Christianity, science, democracy
and common sense. Many Of he
enlisted men in regiments now sta
toned in the south Sea island have
told this chaplain that white COM
missioned officers said that they
would rather see the axis win this
war if the allies winning meant
that Negroes would have equal
rights with the white man.
1--WE did not believe it until we
heard it with our own ears, some
of the same statements coming
from these white officers. OF
course we were very much sur
priced and aghast at hearing such.
We spoke out against the many
injustices heaped upon the Negro
soldiers overseas and that is one
! reaon why we were sent back to
the USA. The war department at
Washington knows about all these
bad conditions existing among the
Negro soldiers overseas and es-
! pecially in this regiment, and it
is hoped that something will be
done concerning the same in the
very neal future.
I'VE believe that it is not tie
section of the US. a white man
comes from that makes him an IN
just or a prejudiced person, but it
is in the man himself. Two of the
most prejudiced and unfair white
commissioned officers that we have
ever known, and who were the
Negroes most deadly enemies in
the armed forces, were in a regi-
ment in which we served were
from Boston, and Brooklyn. We
have never seen two white men
out of Alabama or Mississippi who
we're such great enemies to the
Negro soldiers, and they were both
adjutants in this particular regi-
ment. The one from Boston told
this chaplain that a Negro soldier
in the army had no appeal what
soever from the decisions of his
commanding officer in regard to
race rights, however unjust The
decision might be. Can anyone i'm
agine such a stupid and asnine
statement coming from any sens
ible person?
THE white officer from Brook
Ign was very often seen shopping
around the chaplain's tent at night
whenever any of the enlisted men
called on the chaplain in order
that he might hear just what was
being talked about inside the tent.
On several occasions he was caught
doing this very thing by the en-
listed men who walked around the
chaplain's tent.
Nov note the contrast of this
Boston and Brooklyn Adjutant to
that of a commanding officer of a
certain Negro unit at Fort Dix, n.
r uho ALWAYS roads fhe Negro