The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1946-04-24
From the A. M. e. Church
Review

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besmirched the name and ideals
OF their organization by becoming
the Daughters of American Race
Prejudice when they openly
espoused the National indeceney
of American racial inhibition.
The Causus Belli was the sense.
less denial of Convention Hall in
Washington, Capital and hot bed
of American Race Prejudice, to a
group sponsoring presentation
of Miss Hazel Scott, wife of DR..
Adam Clayton Powell, New York
City congressman.
Previously this same group had
denied the use of their Hall to
Marian Anderson, another stellar
artist, whose only sin, although I
world famous artist, is that she
happened to have been born
brown instead of white.
II seems that this small souled
organization with a Big Name"
is more concerned with the pres
eryation of American Race pre-
judice than the ideals which made
the American Revolution possible
and successful.
For just who were these Ameri
can reyolutionists whom these so
called Daughters honor with their
ID. A. K. program of racial exclu-
Sions? They were eX-jail birds
who were released from English
prisons that they might have new
opportunities in the new Colonial
World; in England many good
people" were jailed for not being
able to pay their honest debts;
in England during the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries the
poverty stricken, the jobless, the
jail birds. and those religiously
prosecuted found haven of
refuge in this land of waste howl
Ing wilderness, Indians. death,
hard work. possibilities and
liberty.
Very few of the teeming thous-
ands who migrated to the new
land to form the bases of pres
ent American civilization came
over on the famous Mayflower;
thousands came from the door
steps of dire poverty. and feudal
vassalage.
Their spirits must have aboml
nable revolusions as they note the
| silly and obortional attempts by
a badly conceited group OF small
soul Americans Negrohobist te
| convince themselves of their per
sonal nobility their white super
iority, their outstanding virtues
through deeply humilating moi
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only two world famous musical
artists, but thirteen million native
brown Americans whose blood
nobility of character, and loyalty
to the Flag have always been
given gladly and courageously.
American Negroes do not breed
saboteurs and Benedict Arnolds
they do not sell Uncle Sam short
and during the war of Revolution
a Negro, Crispus Attacks, was
the first revolutionist to fall in
Boston Commons for the cause
of Freedom, Democracy, Tolerance
and all that is noble in America
today; and that does not include
the organization of Anti-racial
bigots who constitute the so
called OAR; they are misname
instead of being the Daughters oil
those noble spirits whose bloody
foot prints lined the road ways OF
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| Valley Forge; those unconquer
able heroes who gladly died in the
waters of the Chesapeake, the
snow banks along the Hudson
the trackless wilderness of Ken
lucky, South Carolina and Vir
ginia and the frozen shores OF the
Great Lakes region; these mar
minded, slavery protagonist!
are the ignoble Daughters o.
American Race Prejudice anC
modern devotees of pitch forl
Vardaman, Ben Tillman. Cotton
Ed Smith and ranting Bilbo
they have become their devoted