Perhaps white writers can afford to be utterly
irresponsible in their moral and social viewpoints.
Negro *cannot* be rounded.

white

Whatever a white writer may write in this America of ours, today, of his presentation, or whatever picture he may present, nobody says, "That is just like white folks." But whatever a Negro writer writes is likely to be "Just like Negroes." taken as representative of us all, /Therefore, it behooves Negro writers not necessarily to put our best forward, but to try at least to put a balanced foot forward, so that we do not appear to be living in a crazy house of the Negro/in which the blacks seem to be, in quite another country in the most part in their COOL WORLD, little except prone to/the grafitti of the toilet, to borrow a few titles from recent literary projections. The Negro image deserves objective, well rounded (rather than one-sided) treatment, particularly in these days of the black man, can be tremendous freedom movement in which all of us can take pride. Pride, sacrifice and nobility are qualities lacking in some of our most talented outpourings these days. The last things Negroes need are black imitations of neurotic white writers who themselves have nothing of which to be proud. We have a very great deal to learn from them.

["Whatever a white writer may write in this America of ours,\nderogatorily\nor whatever picture he may present, nobody says of his presentation,\n\"That is just like white folks.\" But whatever a Negro writer writes\ntoday is likely to be taken as representative of us all, \"Just like\nNegroes.\" Therefore, it behooves Negro writers in our segregated\nsociety, not necessarily to put our best foot forward, but to try\nat least to put a balanced foot forward--so that we do not all\nappear to be living in a COOL WORLD in the CRAZY HOUSE OF THE NEGRO\nin quite ANOTHER COUNTRY in which the BLACKS seem prone to little\nexcept the grafitti of THE TOILET or a MUMMUMMUMM KILLING\nGROUND. Pride, nobility, sacrifice and decency are qualities strangely\nlacking in these days in some of the most talented outpouring by or about Negroes\nthan one-sided) treatment, particularly in these days of mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm