Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-26
Time Magazine, Negro Crime
And The NAACP

1t should now be becoming more widely understood
among the of Negroes, what suspect has al
ways been true among the intelligent and observ
ing of the group, that Notwithstanding Supreme Court
decisions, congressional legislation, and Presidential
ton nothing much of any real benefit, progress in
the field of civil rights desegregation voting and po-
tical participation for Negroes in the South is going
to about without the full support of overwhelming
national public opinion, which of includes north
and SOUTH and all other sections of the nation.
Among the greatest and most powerful organs for
the creation of American Public Opinion is Time Mag
azine.
In its May 21st edition. Time Magazine in the most
fortnight article which have seen on the subject
points to the high rate of Negro crime which is pointed
to being the most worrisome problem of most big
city mayors in the north where Negroes have congre
gated existing fact largely because of what is called
conspiracy of conceament fostered by Negro lead
ers and organizations such the National Association
Tor the Advancement of COlored People, and in sum
pointed to as evidence of the failure in integration
In its article on the problem of Negro crime Time
Magazine has presented the greatest challenge to the
really sincere and responsible Negro leaders, both north
and south, since the Supreme Court decision in the
school Indignation cases. and the accommodating tensions
and uncertainty which followed made the question of
the Negro and his civil rights the nations most pressing
and far-reaching domestic problem.
Before accepting the challenge of Time Magazine
Negro leaders must be able to accept it's truth and the
further truth that since May 1854 up until now the Ne
gro masses are in psychological turmoil resulting from
repeated emphasis on Negro Civil rights with Negroes
coming to have less and less respect the
civil rights of others while pressing for their own civil
rights.
Equally important if not more So is the fact
that in accepting the great challenge laid down by
Time Magazine, Negro leaders must accept the fact
that the Negro masses have been victmized by a Ne
gro leadership which has taken the more popular and
the more profitable course, of telling them what they
want to hear, rather than tell the truth.
The conspiracy of concealment" which Time SEES
is one of the evidences of the practice of Negro leaders
telling the masses of Negroes what they want to hear
rather than tell them the truth.
The extent to which this Conspiracy of conceal
ment is enforced in the Negro community may be seen
in what happened to the nationally famous Negro lead
er, Rev. Martin Luther King, of Montgomery Ala
Dana, following speech out in Los Angeles California
In which he told the Negroes obvious truths about
themselves, only to have leading Los Angeles Negro
newspaper headline the story thus Rev. Martin Luther
King Trys to Sell Negroes Dooled-up Uncle-tomism
That the National Association for the Advancement
OF Colored People is largely responsible for the "Con-
spracy of Conceament" is all too obvious to those who
have watched its and it's preachments since the
1854 Supreme Court decision
Another truth that Negro leaders, both north and
SOUTH must be willing to face before accepting the cha
enge OF the Time Magazine Article is the fact that
less its policy is radically changed which does not now
seem possible the National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, is already badly in need of
placement as the leader in promoting the progress of
Negro citizens of this country.