Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-08-27
RACE PRIDE AND CIVIL RIGHTS
Believe, Me, The First Will Not
Precede The Second

One thing that is apparent to all intelligent OBJ
of the American Negro in his struggle for civil
rights and first class citizenship that he losing that
pride of that the main foundation of his prog
ress from the emancipation up to the present time.
Out in Los Angeles, California where the Associa
ton for the Study of Negro Life and History held it's
annual convention last week. the Los Angeles Tribune
carried lengthy editorial the subject which it
Guided with these words Believe Me- The First Will Not
Proceed the Second
Asserting that the Negro is losing his race pride
the editorial concludes with the following significant
paragraphs
AS example of this the National Negro Insurance
Assn, most of whose So member companies based
in the South ubant the first Supreme Court deci
sion in the schools dropped the word Negro from
its title last year. and reaffrmed that action this month
in its convention in Cleveland.
Already, benefits have to it result of this
fateful action, official of the company announced
recently; and member companies enjoined to go
out and lift their sights away from just IL percent of
the population and think big to get big-go after the
insurance business of the remaining 88 percent.
And in another part of the country, similar action
taken where in mdwestern conference of the AME
church petoned to change the of the body from
African Methodist Episcopal to Allen Methodist Eps-
copal the Allen incidentally also rather belately hon
ong the late founder of African Methodstism Richard
Allen, philadelphia, 1870, and it announced that
the general conference of the church meeting in the
future expected to get number of resolutions of
this kind, and to seriously to consider the change
In this of the National Negro Insurance Assn.
great tradition is lost by the insurance thinking
they have got to think white to be white at best be
coorless.
ton significance to the of Negroes that it, ap
parenty considered worth preserving loss of it's ident
flcation with the Negro community, aside from the
prestige which its combined assets assets put there
by the IL percent of the population which the MA in
the process of thinking white, is going to be looking
beyond from here on in-might lend to the Negro
munity will cost the Negro community little in it's real
tight which is not the white who hates only poor
Negroes, Negroes without assets but all Negroes and
recognizes living assets worthy of his respect
But it is altogether different matter to have
the African Methodist church desert the tradition on
which founded in persut of some fancied neutral
ity even with the intention of proving inviting
to white people of helping the white forget an
ugly episode in his history which is enthusiastically
thought to be fading out of sight.
The lack of pride in Identification is nothing
more or less than lack of self respect an admission
that unless the white says may join him. then
have nothing of value which we may some day be-
part of, which may exit side by side in
integrity with institution created by whites.
Does the Greek Orthodox church become something
else because it's Pensioners Americanzed and is
located Venice Blvd, in Los Angeles California
US.A.
Does the Jewish Synagogue reinquish it's orthodoxy
to make ITSELF more acceptable to the unorthodox and
the non-Jewish?
Cannot the elders of African Methodism foresee the
day when white worshippers will pray in church
founded by Africans, just Negro worshippers man.
to importune God in countless churches founded
by whites of dozen more national descendants
and each group honoring the place of their worship
more for the sacrifices and glorious traditions connected