Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-11-18
Bro. Davis Lee Writes Again

Here again the other day we had an article by Bro
Davis Lee, Negro published in certain sections of the
press 1t is generally worthless to discuss raise
issue with Negro who would stoop write such an
article For fear however, that some might be misled
we thought it best to go into of Bro Lees Mouth
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The more we travel, Listen and observe, the more
convinced have become that this misleading of
Negroes that Bro Lee speaks Of is due more to those
who would sell their birhrghts betray their people for
elsh individual gan than it is due to the Negroes fight
for Civil Right
Bro. Lee points out that our economic we'll being
should be the Negroes First
What, may we ASK does Bro Lee propose in achiev-
ing sound economic foundation for the Negro? Does
he propose ignorance, teracy and lack of equal edu
cation to that of other in America as sure road
to the Negro economic we'll Being We are sure he does
not If he has the smallest degree of integrity Then
II equal education is vital to the Negroes well being
How and where does he propose that such education may
be obtained
Farming calls for scientific minds Industry
and trades highly technical Business no long
er guess work. but instead all of these vacations and pro-
LESSONS call for thorough and we'll guided instruction
lhere is science now in preparing cup of coffee Per-
maps graduate and Professional training in coffee MAX
ing for southern Negroes will enable Bro Lee to obtain
cup OF coffee that does not look like mud and taste
worst
Does this Bro. Lee who styles himself Negro
leader believe that more trained Negro Doctors will i'm
prove Negro health and consequently serve as basic
foundation for his we'll being Does this self appointed
Negro Leader who does not represent the intelligent
thinking OF the best white minds of the South much
less that OF the Negro believe that Negro Lawyers are
vital to the Negro community affordng him legal pro-
tecton step toward aiding him in his "wel Being"
Lack of training, inferior training, or in some in
stances no training at all in Medicine Law Pharmacy
Engineering Languages Arts Trades General Sciences
Economics money and banking and etc. does not aid the
Southern Negro in escaping from his feeling of infer
lorlty and put him the road to economic we'll being
believe Bro Lee will agree that the best training,
good for the Goose is good for the Gander."
Bro. Lee asks, if the Southern Legislatures with
drew all public funds from school, where would the
Negroes future status be- We ask Bro Davis does the
Negro represent isolated foreign unit in the United
States is he not American citizen the same as the
other that constitute great Nation If he is an
American citizen, then why should he be treated as
special unit Should japanese who had actually partci-
pated in the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Dec 1941 be-
come naturalized in America he would be admitted to
Mississippi University any other Southern school
without question.
In further answer let us ask few questions.
1t the Legislature withdrew public funds from the school,
what would be the future status of the Chinese Ameri
cans, the Japanese Americans, the Mexican Americans
the Irish Americans the German Americans the English
Americans the 1taians Americans, the French Ameri-
cans and all the rest of those in the great homogenety
of races which make up the American population.
What, Brother Lee, would happen to the public
school system itself if it not for public funds?
If Bro Lee, will consult the History of Education in
America he will find that the necessity for Public Edu-
cation for the welfare of the State existed long before
the word South acquired its present conotations Be-
fore the coming of the Public Schools the private schools
only catered to the classes while the poor whites
MED education The same condition would again exist if
Public school funds were abolished
In final summation of his mouthngs, Bro Lee sets
himself up as the one and-only Judge of the meaning
of Democracy by implying that the United States
Supreme Court earned in its decisions relating to the
rights of Negroes to attend white schools saying the
decisions encroachment upon the Southern white
people
But why put such questions to Negro Leader" of
Brother Lees stripe Brother Lee has long been repu-
dated dsowned, and disavowed by the Negro Press
and publishers behind whose high purpose honor and
integrity he masqurades.
Brother Lee, last year repudiated disowned,
and dsavowed by the Southern white Newspaper publish
organization.
Brother Lees NEGRO Leading" has had him in
and-out of Jail several occasions. In fine, Brother
Lee has honest" opinion, Brother Lee is Negro
Leading" for price and he doesn't give dam what
becomes of the Negro the white people, the South
long he blk certain people out of easy money!
and those in Jackson and in Mississippi who in the
habit of making contributions to Negro Leaders of
Brother Lee stripe get their pockebooks and check
books ready because Brother Lee will be down almost
anytime now to collect his thirty pieces Of Silver.