The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-06-12

thAo NAdAu NOuECEl.
The Hampton Choral So
ciety of which Prof. BroadfieId
is founder and director will
be present. The Concert is to
aid our Scholarship Fund.
Singing Pleasing - Atmos-
phere Delightful - View Cor
geOus.
Several new singers will APP
pear in concert.
dress the colored constituents as
if the latter were NOT A PART
of this nation. From hundreds
OF rostrums will come the irri-
tating, stupid references to"YOU
PEOPLE rs if sepia citizens were
overnight visitors from Mars.
Listen and heart
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1T IS THIS idiotic laundering
by supposedly intelligent col
lege-bred candidates which has
set voters against them right at
the start. The fact tina these men
do NOT RECOGNIZE colored
people as a part and parcel of
the nation, and that they insist
upon separate status" even
in speech is an often uncon-
scious- give-away Of a candi-
dates race policy.
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ALMOST AMUSING is the
manner in which some candi-
dates address colored Americans.
You'd think som of them might
even start giving away glass
beads and lucky charms. Of
course there must always be a
joke" thrown in, or a story
about old Nose. The listeners
smile more in pity than at al
legged humor.
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IF SOME candidates really
knew what colored listeners
thought Of their speeches, they'd
go away in the Maine woods and
hide for months. Colored people
hear better speeches on the ra-
dio from Baby Shocks. Even Bob
Hope speaks more intelligently.
Unless I948 candidates get on
the ball, shame on them.
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you PEOPLE this and
your people, that, gives the
listeners a dull detached isolated
feeling. OF course some speak
ers like to address us as "You
Folks" and you Negroes" which
pushes us right out Of the COM
plete citizen picture. It's like
saying you Catholics or you
Jews" or you Italians" you
Irish,' etc.
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MIR. ROOSEVELT won mil
lions of minority followers with
his simple neighborly greeting
of my FRIENDS" 1t seemed
that every American just warm
ed right up to FDR when he in
cluded them all alike in one
great big Citizen Family. No
other political leader welded so
many minority groups together
as did Mr.. Roosevelt. We are Just
beginning to see that now.
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AFTER LISTENING to such
men as Walter White and DR..
Dubois, colored voters feel gross
ly insulted when some cheap
candidates mount the rostrum
and begins to spout a lot of
childish nonsense which even
a savage headhmter would not
stomach. Some candidates think
colored people can't discuss do
nestle and foreign policies and
similar major issues %. Yet
they're quick to ask our youth
to fight these issues.
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A PRIMER FOR Politicians is
badly needed at this time and it
is my regret that I haven't time
to write one for those who ex-
pect to be elected in 1913. For
just as sure as shootin', some
politicians, before many weeks
pass, are going to address coll
ored Americans as if they were
speaking to natives of Tranaki,
Nagasaki. Hangchow, Mindanoa
and Foochow. Wait and see.
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THESE TIMES remind me of
years ago, when. as a cub re-
porter, / was asked by an an1bi-
tious candidate whether he
should appeal 70 colored voters
through Abe Lincoln, old stun.
told him Mr.. Lincoln had passed
on and that his candidates