Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 14]

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'. THE BRONZE REPORTER

Saturday, February~ 20, 1954

The Bronze Reporter.IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT FLINT, MICHIGAN
Editorial Address ~ 202 E. 13th St. Phone 3-8481

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JOHN GIBSON, Jr.
WILLIAM CARSON

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THE STAFF OF THE BRONZE REPORTER

IS UNCLE TOM DEAD?. Harriet Beecher Stowe created a figure that has be
come a legend. His name ~was, Uncle Tom, and he. per
sonified the docile type of individual who could accept

any kind of oppression, and keep faith. This character
went through ~all kinds of trials and tribulations, refused
to escape from slavery, and was finally whipped to death
by Simon Legree. The term ~Uncle Tom~ is used frequently to describe a person who sells out the best interest of thé Negro,to the white man, or to a person who exhibits an attitude of inferiority around white people. An
Uncle Tom is regarded with eqatiatnige by the Negro, and
disrespected by the whites.

Now, Mr. and Mrs. BRONZE CITIZ EN,

there are

several ways of portraying th echaracter of Uncle Tom.

One way is the complacent attitude toward your present
status in the community. You are an Uncle Tom when

__ you refuse to join your Urban League, and the NAACP.

These organizations can only go as far as you allow them,
and without your participation and support, no progress
Your children will very likely inherit-your men
You are an Uncle Tom when you don~t sup
|| port those businesses that employ Negroes.

| YOU~ TO WORK FROM. Our slogan will be, *

us: jobs, and we will give you dollars in trade.~

The Urban League has furnished you with a double
edged sword, when it published the facts on where your
dollar is spent. You give millions of dollars each year
to businesses which refuse to give you any consideration

for decent employment. YOUR WEAPON IS AN
ECONOMIC BOYCOTT OF THESE PLACES, and the
BRONZE REPORTER IS BUILDING THE LIST FOR
~Give

When the Urban League Membership Drive, and the

| NAACP. drive ends, then we can count the Uncle Toms
among the colored people.. If the big majority are Toms,
_then we can look for a year of no progress.

IRMA M. WILLIAMS

~| habit of being forever,

chance in twenty of being born

| would be worse).

This Could Ha

Urgent. at

A~ special ~ dllpeat is made to
everyone who shares the. respon,
sibility of maintaining a residence
whether that residence belongs to
him or whether, he is 7p as
a tenant.

PLEASE ~ PLEASE form the
Vigilant

ppen To You!

Tr AIN~T been so long ago that

the ~word ~~ain~t~~? was having
| quite a bit of trouble holding up a
bloody but unbowed head whenever it managed to slip in (or out)
-| at one of our centers of knowledge
and culture. But ~~ain~t~~ just ain~t
had it so good as it has since one
fabled wit made the much publicized remark that: ~A lot of ~
folks, who ain~t saying ~~ain~t,~~
ain~t eating.~
Personally, I~ve never been too
concerned about this particular
| word, because it ain~t ever bothered me as much as another I~ve
heard bantered about in almost
every section of the country I~ve

| YOU IN THE PREVENTION OF

for FIRE HAZARDS. THE FLAGRANT LOSS OF LIFE, AND
PROPERTY AS THE RESULT
OF NOT BEING VIGILANT FOR
FIRE TRAPS and/or HAZARDS
HAS GOT TO STOP!!

YOUR FIRE- DEPARTMENT | _

IS ALWAYS. READY TO HELP

FIRE,

Color - A World View

The vant majority of the peo-'
ple of the world are colored. Because this quiet fact/is so important lets dramatize it a little to
show its importance. Let~s imagine that we. are |chiidren and
pretend a little without exaggerating. Let~s pretend that you
have not yet been born but will
foe this year.

If you are born this year, then
on the same day more than 200,000 other babies will ~be ~born, all
over the world.:

You will have Jebs * than one
in the United States or Russia.
They may be fine countries but
the majority of people don~t: live
in them.

You will probably be colored.
With 200,000 in the baby crop
today there aien~t many openings in places. where ~the white
race lives.~ You have to take your
chances with other |babies. The
chances are, you will be colored
black, or colored brown, or colored yellow.:

If you dre born \colored, you
will probably be born either
among people who have recently
revolted and thrown out the white
folks who used to g ern them or
else in a gountry that is still trying to throw. the white folks out.
If you are ~born in) Africa,~ you
are likely to learn | the maxim,
~never trust a white man.~

You have only one chance in
four of being a christian. It is
more likely that you will. ~be born
a Confusian or a Buddist, a Mo-/
hammedan or a Taoist.

If you- are born in the United
States you will probably live longer than a year. But/you will have
a better chance of being born in
India ~ there you~ll have one to
four chance of living more than
a year. Even (if you survived
ibabyhood in India, you~ll have
only a fifty-fifty chance of growing to maturity, (Some places

If you are born! colored, the
chances are overwhelming that you
will ~be. chronically sick all your
life ~ from malaria, or intestinal
parasites, or tuberculosis, or maybe leprosy. And even if you are
not chronically sick,| you are likely to be-weak from hunger. You
have about a two to ene chance
of suffering from | malnutrition,
either from too little food or from
food that is not a balanced nour-|
ishing diet.

And if you are born colored
you have only a one to four chance
of learning to read; You will almost certainly work) on the land,
and most of what you raise will
go to the landlord., In addition,

you are likely to be deeply in

debt to the moneylender, and you
may have to pay him annual intérest of anywhere from 30 to
100 percent.

Thus my friend is the situation
in part for men of color.. Let~s
stop stretching the imagination
which I hope stretched the mind
and heart and continue to examine these billions of people of
color.

| ~ain't.

visited~which is the most of them.
it~s almost what you could call a

mean: when a person starts off
by saying he ~~ain~t this~ or he
that,~ you know he ain~t
about to start bragging. He~s going to say something negative.
But, when he uses this other word.. Well, he~s about to say something he ain~t going to be able to
prove if he actually has to.

The word, case you ain~t guessed,
is ~~use-ta.~? I really think something drastic should be done about
it. Take the gal next door. She
says she ~~use-ta~~ date a college
All-American, now a famed Pro~
but she married a musician. A
salesman I know says he ~~use-ta~~~
sell more accounts than any other
salesman in the county, but I
know him well enough to know he
has as tough.a time as I do meeting monthly bills. I know another
fellow who ~~use-ta~~ know just
about any famous person you care
té6 mention, and ~~use-ta~ call
them all by their first name.

Like I say, it~s terrible. I used
to think something might be done

The ideas of freedom, justice,
equality loosed in the world have
started these people on the march
and they won~t turn back. The
~Deelayation of Independence,
drafted: as a charter cf freedom
for Americans, works today in
Asia and. Africa as an inspiration
to millions who seek their place
in the sun. A part of this struggle is independence ~ -jndependence from French, Dutch, and
British empires. A part of this
struggle is for equality. The people of Asia and Africa want social
justice, economie:.opportunity, and
a fair share of the riches of the
world. |

about it, but I am not so sure any
more. There ain~t much =

The U. 8. Sepliunaas ef Labor'
pays the standard of Mving in
Russia has been declining constantly since 1928. The Russian
worker today spends 45 per cent
more time on the job than he did
In 1928 to buy an) equal amount of
bread, potatoes, beef, butter, eggs, _
milk and sugar.

According to reports beer that
the Mrs. can~t smell on your breath
has been produced by chemists...
They discovered a process to put

(Continued Next Week)....

~Yeah!... Well I'll say it again! Money in the bank is man~s

best friend!~

word of opposite usage. By this IT..

odor-chasing chlorophyll in the beer
| without changing its taste.

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