Jackson advocate., 1953-05-02
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BY PERCY GREENE

ARlOu y KEEL SATURDAY
NIGHT: The time is, coming now
when the so-called Negro leader is
getting more and more under the
spotlight, and is being more and
more put to the test, and the
folks that's watching closer than
anybody else to see what the So
called leader is doing if the little
folks, the show huff race-pride peo-
pie that make up the group l like
to call Amt Haggar's Chillun in
this column, and nobody in the
whole world, no matter how slick
they think they've come to be in
going up town saying one thing
to the Why-Folks and coming back
'mongst Amt Haggar's Chillun
talking outta the other side of
the mouth can foll'em I've al
ready knowed that from long
standing, but worse of all is that
the Why-Folks don't care near as
much about some of the so-called
leaders, as they themselves think
the Why-folks do after they've run
backwards and forwards in from,
of'em up town telling everything
they can of what's going on
'mongst aint Haggar's Chillun and
adding little spice to it to fit the
Why-folks (or SO they Think #
you don't believe what Pm saying
here just you git up and git to do
ing something and trying to do
something really worthwhile, so
they can go up town 'mongst they
Why-folks and start talking about
what you aint, and who you aint
and the first time you meet some
of the Why-folks right after
they've got thru talkin the first
name they call when they tell you
who told them what about you is
one of them very Leaders" whose
been thinking up all kinds of ways
to increase their standing wild de
i Why-folks, while at the same time
trying to fool everybody bout what
they're trying to do for the good
of the Tribe That's what the
Parish Streeters was talking a.
bout while l was setting and look
ing and listening while | ct ma
| TESS and drunk ma beeer and
some of you'alls which done broke
out wild the leadership fever since
| old Percy Greene talked and wrote
! SO that you amt scarded to death
no more, show woulda got a good
picture of yourself if you had been
setting where | was and listening
to what / heard | was happy
when | got outta ma, corner and
somebody hollored "Hey Dear"
Greene :. cause I'd already found
| out how l stand wild my friends ;.
the shownuff race-pride people
'mongst Aint Haggar's Chillun.
ALONG THE OLE AVENUE:
THAT Miss Roselle and Miss White
in town from Yazoo City, with
crowd of young women taking the
Beautician's Examination up at
Mary Moore's Beauty Shop stop
ping me on the Corner Of Farisn
and Church, after taking pains to
tell me who they are, saying now,
7 don't you 60 put us up and Down
Parish Street..
JUST DIFFERENCE IN KIND:
l noticed in the newspapers the
other day that the Hot Springs
Bathers of the Cotton State League
after letting out the Tugerson
Brothers have signed Cuban,
Nelson Hamper A.. If he's lack
most of the Islanders who play
good baseball you can't tell US a
part :. but / reckon there is
something to difference in kind :. :.
and not difference in color
PEOPLE,: Most famous among
the later day Parish Streeters is
"Mutt" High, the man with plenty
of money, who knows everything
so they say He was up at
the Baptist Hospital the other day
and it took him long time to go
| and find the money to redeem one
of his children who had been put
/! in the hospital after an accident
and from what they told me,
he never would have found the
| money if the folks at the hospital
hadn't called the police to start
him off, to find something some
| where that he didn't have in his
pocket.
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