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allowed to remain in Congress if
his mind is not wholesome.
gro bourgeois have adopted a
"head in the sand attitude.’’
people
wise.
— black, white or other- of NAACP
the black
George-8X Samuels. N.Y. Clayton
What's My Line?
istrative body controlling the pol- paper of any kind but the way I
icy ot this great organization, see and hear some people going
see and hear some people g<
on against Powell for what he
said about these so-cailed groups
who claim to be on the side of
this person or that person, well be
is right.
To Jackie Robinson: "Shut
Sir: Will you kindly convey my
______ _ ______.
I can’t help but believe that
messages to Che three gentlemen whiten will only slow down the ul-
Innate goal that Negroes are
roentioned below?
fighting for. They honestly be
lieve we should face this problem
on a go stow policy. I don't feel
that way. and when I think of
how I’ve had to live my 55 yean
under oppression, I get mad.
To Adam Po'/etl: “Welcome
home brother, you've been gone
too long
your mouth, go away."
help
To Malcom X :'Td be lost
Josephine Major
New York, N.Y.
He's For Action
Sir: 1 am „• paid member of the
New York Na.V'*P, yet I must
confess that 1 stanu ”ith the Hon
orable Congressman Adam Clay
ton Powell on the issue of having
only Negroes within the admin
Particular
people
serve .
SILVERCUP
SILVERCUP is
the world’s finest
bread.../fefwaJ/y
I want to see Gov. Barnett coo
viefced now. I want to see those
shot gun blasters in Mississippi
picked up and convicted
I have the nignest respect for
Mr. Wilkins, but maybe he feels
as though his job is just to keep
the organization running. But the
American Negro wants action. He
wants his rights, and he doesn’t
intend to wait another hundred
years. Mr. Wilkins just doesn’t
understand.
Because we are fighting for in
tegration as our rignt under the
law doesn't mean we have to in
tegrate our own house. We al
ready have the United Nations. I
just don’t trust white people. God
knows I’ve tried, but they always
come out cheating us.
Excuse the old phrase, but
feel strongly that now is the time
to stand up and be counted. The
~ sooner the Negro wakes up and
realizes that he stands alone. No
body, but nobody cares about
him. He has to fight alone and to
gether. Yes, as I said before I
am for Adam and Rev. King
Jackie and yourself. Yes, I said
you Mr. Hicks. If you continue to
iiit hard and straight to the point
they will try to get you. But, 1
think this team will sacrifice the
big jobs and positions that are us
uaUy used as bait.
I welcome Mayor Wagner. Roc
kefeller, Kennedy and others in
the NAACP. as honorary mem
bers.
I heard Jackie’s statement on
the Powell incident. It doesn’t
change a thing. Maybe Jackie
still trusts white people.
Herman C. Brown
New York. N.Y.
Leave Him Alone
Sir: This is the first time I
have ever spoken out to a news-
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for the days of being for ooe's
race is past for this country is
full of all kinds of people and un
less these groups are for all peo
ple they can’t help anyone but
themselves to get rich off of the
poor dumb ones, and they know
it.
The trouble Is they set one
against the other and you know
as well as I do that we are all
brothers under the skin whether
we like It or not, and we have a
right the same as anyone else for
we are our worst enemy.
You see we do the very same
thing to one another that we get
angry with the white man for do
ing
Your Christ did not just fight
for the right of the Jew, neither
did Moses just bring out the Jew
ish people: he brought out all
that wanted to come and don't
get me wrong for I am a black
man not a Negro or a man who
hates anyone, for two wrongs will
never make a right.
So why don’t you people lay off
Powell and let him do the job
the people pay him to do.
And another thing Powell might
be a man I don’t like but that has
nothing to do with the truth.
And-TTfte other thing this is my
country and I have paid six years
of my life to be able to say this,
and the law says I have the same
right as any other man and I will
get that right no matter what.
Tony Abney
New York City
Back Turning
Sir: Regarding that outdoor
meeting. I wonder how many peo
ple realize that those supposedly
outspoken words end remarks
made by the Hon. Adam Clayton
Powell»to try and lure the Mus
lims to the polls to vote.
Mr. Powell is for Mr. Powell.
First he tried to hoodwink the
Puerto Ricans by telling them
that he was looking out for them,
so they could forget their own
leaders. Of course they soon, in
fart immediately, realized that
Powell is a phony.
The Puerto Ricans have not
be?@ed anyone to speak for them
because, unlike the Negro, they
have more than enough leaders.
Mr. Powell has eompltely turn
ed his back on his own district.
Sure we have the Peace Corps
(ACT), but who really gets the
gravy? Rep. Adam Powell.
We have to go along with it so
as not to be out of same Federal
money for our youth. Just look
back over the years. Adam Pow
ell heaped great and unending
praise on the work of our NAACP
at the top. He also knew then
that if it were left to the Negro
high echelon, an organization Like
the NAACP would not stick toge
ther. Just take a look at how oft
en we are farced to vote in a new
president at the uptown NAACP
office. Not to overlook the
amount of times this local office
is in the red.
Adam Powell knows that he
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I am simply ashamed of any
leader who contradicts what he
advocates by his actions.
Please answer regarding
whether Mr. Powell is married to
a white woman, and whether the
Muslims are allowed to be dem
ocratic and marry a person of tile
white race.
Gwendolyn DeSouza
116-26 167th St.
Jamaica. N.Y.
Editor's Note: Mrs. Powell is
a Puerto Rican.
Dubious Future
•
Sir: This letter is primarily a
letter of congratulation for Miss
Gertrude Wilson on her frank,
honest appraisal of the Muslin®.
It is also a letter of condemna
tion for all of the Negro columnists
on this so-called Negro newspa
per, who haven’t had the guts to
make an honest appraisal of the
Muslims for themselves and then
report how they truly feel.
I am very dubious about the
future advances we will make in
eliminating our many racial ills
as long as we continue with our
child-like attitudes.
I know that there are some
white people, and some Negroes
who just don’t relish the idea of
the masses of black people really
obtaining true equality, because
they seem to think that this will
endanger their status in the com
munity.
They talk and write unceasing
ly about all of our racial imbal
ances (with the encouragement of
the white bigots) since this is us
ually the limit of their endeavor,
but will not encourage or aid any
group that is seriously and. sin
cerely eliminating our many pro
blems. unless they are first sanc
tioned by the Great White Father.
The great white fathers have
labeled the Muslims a hate
group, and immediately the Ne
and many others only Intend to
satisfy their selfish needs. Mr.
Powell is now crying because his
many white friends are now de
serting him. Finally he can no
longer twist them around his lit
tle finger. He also realizes that
many in Harlem are getting Wise
to him, and Ray'Jones both living
outside of the community. We do
not forget the contributions these
people nave made but with our
continuous struggle; it is recog
nized whatever contributions are
made toward the progress of t he
Negro. Let us not forget that the
students sit-in demonstrations,
the many court fights regarding
desegregation in the southern
schools were waged by the very
able Thurgood Marshall
Mr. Powell should also try and
look back at the amount of Ne
groes with money who have run
from our community because
they really do not want to live
among their own people. If it
weren’t for some of the really
sincere white people. I wonder
how far we would get?
Yep. people are not fooled by
that speech Saturday. He wants
the press and whites to think that
he now controls the Muslims and
Malcolm X. I’U bet Mr. X. sees
through Adam already. Roy Wil
kins was right. Adam Powell is
truly Harlem’s problem child.
Alexander Pierce
New York, N.Y.
Comparing Strides
Sir: In response to the open let
ter written to Congressman Adam
Clayton Powell hy ex-baseball
player Jackie Robinson. I have
the following to say.
Though I am not a registered
Muslim, the teachings and facts
proclaimed by the Honorable Eli
jah Muhammad and his Interna
tional representative. Minister
Malcolm x, cannot honestly be
denied by any real race-conscious
so-called Negro. .
Mr. Robinson must be aware
that today the NAACP, though it
has done uome good In the past,
unless it changes its policy
quickly, will soon be of little use
or value to the over 18,000,000 60-
called Negroes in America. It
cannot honestly and intelligently
be compared with the tremendous
strides that are being made by
the Black Muslims.
has done more for
worker than Adam
Powell ever will.
Howard N. Myer
Rockville Center. N.Y.
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Whether this paper would want
to admit it or not, it is a darn
shame when it takes a white col
umnist to publicly admit the
truth about the Black Muslims.
If we sincerely focus our at
tention on these strange happen
ings then, it is easy to see why
we are in such bad shape.
True there are some skeptics
who seem to see some controver
sial aspects in the Muslims, or
any group for that nut+ter but the
overall good of the Muslims pro
gram should eclipse any area of
doubt any sincere person har
bors.
Blundered Badly
If Adam Clayton Powell has
been quoted correctly as saying
that Negroes should not support
NAACP. he has blundered very
badly
I -fully subscribe to the posi
tion of Loren Miller, (which
NAACP circulates, incidentally,)
called "Farewell to the twhite)
Liberals." But that does not
mean farewell to the white inte-
gratioreist. particularly one who
brings special talent and burn
ing indignation as part of his
qualifications.
I only hope that one day that
we will unite together, regardless
As a matter of fart. Congress
of our affiliations, to map out our
man Powell himself employed
own program for full equality,
Herbert Hill to work for his own]
among our own people, directed
Committee. I think that there
by our own folks, and only then
are many who wiU agree that
will we be able to command the
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Is it because Mr. Robinson is]
employed by white society that5
he now considers this his society?
Also where does Mr. Robinson
get the authority to make the ri
diculous statement that the way
pointed by the Black Muslims is
not the true way to the solution
of the Negro problem?
Mr. Robinson makes the state
ment that the Negro is growing]
up. Yes, he is growing up, qndl
the more he grows, the mare he!
realizes that to be race-cons
cious is to think in terms of ad
vancement of self and kind. This1
has been the essence of advance
ment in all other ethnic groups of
peoples on the face of the earth.
Though the open letter was
written to Mr. Powell, I am cur-]
ious to know just what side of the]
fence is Mr. Robinson on. Is he
for his own people, or has he be
come so white-minded that he has
lost sight of the masses, their
problems, and the tremendously]
admirable job that the Muslims
are doing to uplift, advance, and
lead their people to independence
and equality?
Walter F. Scott
Brooklyn, New York|
Tell Us More
Sir: I am glad that the AMS-1
TERDAM NEWS had the oppor
tunity during the strike to be
read toy many other citizens who||
(unfortunately) live in segregat
ed all white neighborhoods. I am
proud of the progress that this
paper is making, and that its.
reading matter is becoming more ]
universal and educational for all
I must take this opportunity toi]
comment on the handsome Adam'
Clayton Powell, who I thought-
was a minister advocating and'I
spreading God’s love of man. Ij"
also thought he was primarily In-1
terested in the Negroes’ welfare. I
Is Mr. Powell still married to]
, the same white wife?
Perhaps this paper could en-ll
lighten me and other readers toll
[ those contrary to God’s law
’’groups” with a series of articles.
I think Mr. Powell should explainI
his real reasons to us folks be-i
I1 cause he certainly shouldn’t be
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