Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16

The comment of the Pittsburg Courier Coumnist
Radcliffe last week editorial under the provoca-
tive title, More Uncle Toms greatest need of the South
Negro brought to attention and
taking the first opportunity to reply to the statements
of Mr.. Radcliffe and at the time point out the
difference between the Jackson Advocate and the Pitts
burg Courier in regard to the problems and conditions
with which the southern Negro is surrounded
In the very first place again assert that the
greatest need of the southern Negro TODAY is Negro
leaders with the tact wisdom, and diplomacy to estab
iSh friendly relationship with the responsible white
leadership at the local level, such tact WISDOM and
diplomacy being the greatest asset of Booker T. Wash
ington, and others named in editorial who have
been branded Uncle Toms" and being branded
Uncle Toms" by the present day leaders of the
race.
In regard to Mr.. Radcliffe's implication that our
editorial written in effort to increase our ad-
vertising income afraid to state here that
were our resources equal to those of the Pttsburg
Courier we would devote effort in trying to tell
the Southern Negro the truth about the problems and
conditions with which he is surrounded, instead of,
the Pittsburg Courier is doing, leading them from
great expectation to another only to have them end up
in further Illustration and beWderment and increasing
hatred and bitterness toward the white people among
whom he lives and from who he must his daily
bread.
In furtherance of this subject which is who is get
ting the money from the Negro leadership role, we
doubt If Of the bus bOycOtts would have lasted
apprecabe time were it not for the fact that thousands
Of dollars have been pouring in to the leaders from the
un-reallstic, and unthinkng Negro masses who have
been gOaded to and contributions as these
leaders go from extreme to another in their pro-
nouncements and efforts the great NAACP above
being accused OF carrying on such policy.
In regard to yearning to be back in the ranks
of the NAACP as stated by Mr. Radcliffe would
point out that of the principal speakers the
first Civil Rights Mobilization held under the auspices
of the NAACP in the Department of Labor Auditorium
IN Washington, in 1949 or thereabout, pointed out
that frontal attack segregation would succeed only
in the nation against the Negro and defer rather than
hasten his full emancipation, and attainment of first
class citizenship We think events since the Supreme
Court decision in the school segregation cases, in the
deep south the of interest and concern have
proven the truth of the statement made at the
NAACP civil Rights Mobilization, and despite Mr.. Rad
cltfe's statement we do not now eye-to-eye with
the NAACP.
In regard to the ntegration of the public schools of
the south which is the leading concern of the NAACP
we hold the position that the primary aim of the Su-
preme Court to guarantee the Negro of the South
equality of education. That, in the south the Negro
has the established right to have his schools and
that the Supreme Court decision not aimed at de-
stroymg that right. That with a program of equal
schools being provided by the states of the SOUTH and
for the further that the increasing salaries of
thousands of Negro teachers in the SOUTH can be the
foundation for great Negro economic progress it
opinion that the southern Negro will be foolish to give
up his schools for the dubious equality of ntegra-
ton.
Personally refuse to join with those who now see
Cne negro ScnOOl as something dSgrace1ul and Negro
teachers bunch of ncompetents who doing moth
ing but holding Negro children back in their education
And further, without regard to who it peases and who
it makes mad, for Negro teachers with equal faci
ties, equal salaries and equal training teach Negro
children in Negro schools for all the remaining years
of human history.
The Pittsburg Courier is a newspaper with wide
circulation. It's editors and coumnist, including Mr..
Radcliffe bound to know that the white people
troll all the all the jobs, all the instruments of
power the police, and the jury facts that
that the Southern Negro is already beginning to under
stand after reading many predictions of things to
come, that didn't happen in the .so-caed northern
Negro newspapers like the Pittsburg Courier
In conclusion, Mr.. Radcliffe and the Pittsburgh
Courier could do the Southern Negro far greater
service than they doing by telling him the truth
about his conditions and surroundings instead of telling
him what he wants to hear, which is the difference be-
tween the Jackson Advocate and the Pttsburg Courier