Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-04-11

the NAACP, for the reason that
it has whites in high positions.
This seems to be a species Of
specious reasoning and falsely as
sumes that no white can be trust
ed as a fighter for full rights for
the Negro. Doubling the integrity
Of all whites is just as bad as
doubling the honesty of all Ne
groes as is a part of the Old
South's Jumping philosophy" by
which all Negroes are placed in
one category and that is the cate
CORY Of inferiority.
Congressman Powell's exhorta-
ton smacks of irresponsible de-
magoguery and the Negro demago-
que is just as dangerous as the
white demagogue - if not more
so, when the Negroes intellectual
and social levels are generally
lower, thus pre-disposing the Ne
gro to take demagoguery more
seriously.
I had Congressman Powell in
the highest esteem and had ad-
mired his ability and his undoubted
courage and from no quarter has
there been higher hopes that he
would develop into one of our fine
Negro statesmen. His opportunit-
les have been unparalleled.
But doubts are arising as to
whether he has exploited to the
full, the great heritage, left by an
illustrious father who wrought
nightly in his day. And although
we admire his splendid abilities
and great courage, we look with
considerable skepdcism upon his
judgment which guided him into a
behaviour that left considerable
embarrassment and humiliation at
sundry times.
Christian candor forces the con-
clusion that history is too replete
with stories Of genuine interest of
whites in Negro advance to come
at this late date with the argu-
ment that because the NAACP
has whites in the upper echelons
Of its organization that Negroes
should boycott it.
Old John Brown was white and
so was William Lloyd Garrison
and so were those wonderful
Christian Yankees who came South
and built schools which even today
form the foundations Of the Ne
groes' higher education.
Honest men cannot doubt the
prerogatves and purposes Of those
great benefactors and to assume
that with them died all whites of
integrity is not only fallacious but
amounts to a dangerous assump-
ton. The Negro has little to gain
in a war that fights hate with
hate.
The NAACP needs no defenders;
its record is written large and GER
tain. The battles it has fought and
won will attest to its claim to the !
Negroes allegiance now and here
after.
DR.. Powell Is quick to observe
that the Black Muslims under NAL
colin x Is not a subversive organ
ization; he might have In all fair
ness also pointed out that neither
Is the NAACP a subversive organ
ization. He pointed out that the
Black Muslin organization Is a
Negro supremacy organization"
This column Is against all "su-
premacy" organizations whether
white, black or brown, for It Is a
supremacy complex" that has the
Twentieth Century world sitting
on the proverbial powder keg. It
was the supremacy complex that
led to the slaughter Of 5000, 900
Jews under the hellish Hitler
regime in Germany. Down with
these "suprcmacies" and up with
the brotherhood Of Jesus Christ!
If Representative Powell wants
to preach brotherhood on Sunday
and "supremacies" on Monday
that is a matter between him and
his God, but as for the Negroes {
who think their own way through {
the current merass Of '.isms" and
'ologies" they are going to string I
along in the faith Of the fathers. c
AS between muslimism and 1
Christianity I choose Christianity }
and as between Malcolm X and q
Jesus Christ I choose Jesus, az I
between Powell as q statesman
md Powell the damagogue I would