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November 14, 1957 "We sO-called Negroes were supposed to be a part of the Christian church, yet we lived in s bitter world of defection, eaused by our being cast aside and revceted by the white Chvtspian shurch of our cruel slave~ Oa ee ~ ho te =r ew "In a false ané futile attempt to ‘escape! the reality and horrors of the shameful condition itn which belief in the white man's Thristian religion had placed us. . « in Jarze ssubers we became vietims of dyunkennes¢, seefer-~smohing, and cope addiction. We garu: Inte nothingness. And then the sane white christians ridiculed and iaughed us to scorn for ‘imitating’ then, “Loathsome disease eansed by to closed a contract with the weal: blooded white race ran rampant through us. “Nessenger Muhamnad has shown us wherein our economic plight was sc vitiful, our hope of sufficient food, clothing and shelter so resote, that we turned in desperation to vises of the very lowest sort.,.gambling, Banes of chance, hopin: that just ‘cne lusicy niumber' would put us agein witith reach of the recessities of dife for our famiiies aud cov cuvselves. — "Yes, and many cf us so-called Negroes who were even the very ‘pilliors' of the Negro Church were often the most artful thieves and masterful LIARS, and the chief organizers of the very evils that were tearing our people apart. FEAR rcled us, but it was not tle fear or God. We had feer only ef the white slavermasters, We were afraid to let the vhite slavemasters even sce us advocating or practicing unity and love toward OUR OWN KIND, "We had no knowledge from the Lyncher's Rope of the White Christians, or from their acts of rape