Jackson advocate., 1961-09-30
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BY PERCY GREENE

BY PERCY GREENE
PARISH STREET SATUR-
DAY NIGHT: Aint Haggar's
Chillun's is bout to wake up
and find theyselves burdened
down with lot of "YOUNG IN
TER-LEC-TULLS," mostly bur-
dened down with some both
false and strange 'ceptions of
what it take to be a man, and be
recognized as a man; and whose
time and thoughts if they really
can do in "rail thinking" is being
mostly wasted in trying to es-
cape the fact of Negro Tradi-
tion and Negro history, which
they aint took time to learn
much, "ef anything" about,
since the subject aint being
taught in the schools where most
of the YOUNG IN-TER-LEC-
TULLS" mytrikulates at, and
gifts dey pie-sigma-kamma pins
at. What make me think lack
was while eating my catfish and
drinking by "stew-o-the-brew,"
was the haggaling what l been
heard that been goin' on 'mongst
the YOUNG IN-TER-LEC-
TULLS," of the tribe of Hag-
gar, bout less don't sing no
more of'n dem Negro Sperituals
no more, fur us selves, and
Special less don't sing 'em no
more for no "why-folks." l used
to set around, lack l still do
sometime now, and think about
when l used to hear my Grand
ma sing long time ago, and what
mostly / been thinking about
now is when l think about it is
where did us old folks "way
down yonder in de corn fields"
find all that wisdom" what
lead them to invent such song
titles as NOBODY KNOWS DE
TROUBLES | SEES GO
DOWN MOSES WAY DOWN
IN EGYPT LAND TELL
OLE FARO LET MY
PEOPLES GO STEAL
AWAY TO JESUS YOU
GOTTA REAP WHAT YOU
SOW =. 1 AMT GOT LONG
TO STAY HERE SWING
LOW SWEET CHARIOT +.
and JESS A LITTLE TALK
WID JESUS MAKES 1T RIGHT
ALL RIGHT you can
listen a whole lot while you
eating and drinking, and after
l had been listening for a long
time at the conversation that
was going on "across the crowd
ed room" the question rose in
my mind which one of the
subjects of the above remarks
would Aint Haggar's Chilluns
be better-off if they got rid of
and jest about time | was
asking myself the question 3.
the answer came from across
the room, when one of the fell
lows doing the talking stood up
and said MAN YOU KNOW
US AMT GONNA STO P
SINGING SPIRITUALS and l
added if we can escape being
burdened down by a lot of
"YOUNG IN-TER-LEC-TUL-
LIS" who amt took the
time to discover the wisdom and
philosophy of tradition and his
tory.
WEEKLY SAD NOTE: AL
bert Hodges, the "Shade Tree"
mechanic, we'll known up and
down Parish Street is reported
to have suffered a heart attack
while driving over in Clinton
this week and in the resulting
collision seriously injured him.
self and two other persons, all
three still hospitalized on the
critical list.
SOMETHING THAT MADE
ME- LAFF: The story l heard a
fellow telling about one of the
local young crusaders telling
group of Parish Streeters about
how the climate" has changed,
but he never did quite make it
clear whether the climate had
changed for the better or for
the worst
SOMETHING / DI DIN T
KNOW: That Prof. B. L. Bell,
longtime school man in Cleve-
land, up in the delta, who /
could count among my sincere
friends is dead and buried. My
belated sympathies to his family
comes from a letter from his
wife this week telling me of his
death late in July.
~ A