Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-02-26
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BY PERCY GREENE

FERENT =. is one way that Aine
Haggar's Chillun can say more'n
most folks, given as they have been
all along to trying to make little
sound big and big sound bigger
and sometimes expressing wisdom
tar above them who calls them
selves wise . | was setting down
eating my fish and drinking my
beer while some of the members
of the tribe was discussing the sub
ject of Indignation and how it is
tairing in fur-away-places while
some of the Brethren points a
gleeful and sometimes humorous
finger at the Ole Magnolia, where
they would make -that-dont-
knowbetter believe that Aine Hag-
gar's Chillun am living 'mongst
the only folks who amt happy that
the Supreme Court said what it
did, and is holding their breathe
until it gifts through talking +.
What | was listening to was bout
Indignation up in St. Louis where,
as one brother said, the hi g h
schools got integrated but the two
that was habitated by Aine Hag-
CARS Chillun stayed on lack they
was cause they was the only folks
what lived near 'em as the
talk went on | heard somebody
start wondering bout what the
dark folks was going to do with
most of the children left in the
same schools where they was, and
all the same, but everybody talk
ing bout St. Louis done got inte-
grated When | heard the talk
take that turn that's when it
comes to me how when | was a
boy folks use to say, it's the same
thing but different which was the
same way as one fellow pointed
out that the dark folks in St. Louis
would look at the two high schools
what remains as they was, and
what he said is gonna be the case
in many Of them places where
the Why-Folks is so fine outside
the Ole-Magnolia, when they gifts
through migrating if they ever
git started after that court gifts
through talking outta both sides OF
its mouth, most folks gonna be
hollering bout we done got inte-
grated, lack already up in Chi
cago, Detroit, and SIGH places, but
the "Cullud Schools" will keep on
being cullud because nobody else
lives near 'em Which means
the same thing but different.
SOMETHING THAT MADE ME-
LAFF: That joke they're telling
about a certain fellow who at one
time would do almost anything to
keep his name out of the newspa-
per, who they say now is ready
to do almost anything to get his
ldlllo Ill Ifle eWSpd pSIS.
MAN OF THE HOUSE,: Them
what knows are telling one an
other, which is the way | heard it,
that when that fellow what runs
the Ice-Cream parlor gets mar
ried everything will be ready cause
he's buying curtains, spreads, and
all the little things that the wife
like to buy, SO she won't have
bit of trouble
WAS THIS A FIRST: Just got
in town the other night from down
in Mendenhall where an overflow
crowd came out to hear me speak
on Negro History Week Program
where | said, 'mongst other things,
one of the worst handicaps of the
Negro today is the pitiful lack
of knowledge of his own history,
| stop in the Home-Dining Rock
1OI d cup vi (O1lSC, WHICH, olI
a little while somebody pokes their
head into the door and says
woman has just killed man up
the street. | went out and follow
ed the crowd to the Arcade Cafe
on Hamilton Street where Johnnie
Lowe had been shot through the
head by the woman who operates
the place. The police arrive. They
investigate and wait for the Judge
to hold the Coroner Jury, and |
was sworn in to serve on the jury
which found that Johnnie died of
a wound from a pistol fired by
Katie Mae Washington.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: The
greatest incitment to crime is the
hope of escaping punishment. Gil
cerO.
Hiqh School