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v SHOWMAN SLAMS NAACP
(By George Whittington)
The first interest being served
at Poplarville Is that of commun
ism, a Negro comedian whose
name became a Byword 30 years
ago declared here Thursday.
Stepin Fetehit, who parlayed a
shuffling gait and a lazy whine
into a million dollars and a name
synonymous with laziness, made
that rtrrl analinri. **Wng that in
any such situation, “Communist
participation, Communist interest,
and Communist interference might
be found.”
retxaut stopped^ in Jackson to
day on his way to the gulf coast,
on a booking tour for “little Rich
ard”, noted bop-singing Negro
evangelist. He went to the office
of the State Sovereignty Com
mission, where he met Hie press,
voluntarily lumping a barrage at
both the Poplarville mob and Hie
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Oolored People.
Fetehit—real name Lincoln Theo
dore Monroe Andrew Perry in hon
or of four US. Presidents—made
his observations in commenting on
the mob kidnaping of Negro M.
C. Parker in Poplarville.
He said he sees Communist in
fluence within the NAlAiCP, even
if the Communists don’t dominate
the organization—and he issued a
warning to all Negroes against
those who would pretend to serve
their purposes through force.
“You can’t destroy the rights of
one person or one race without en
dangering the rights of all,” Perry
asserted. “You can’t give power
to one big group without having
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the ever-present .danger of that
group to use its rights against
you,” he said.
He added tint he is flatly op
posed to the program of the NA
AGP in the South* “although I once
gave benefits in its behalf.”
He said that since the time he
■worked in behalf of the then
fledgling organisation, he is con
vinced Ha aims have changed. “1
knew Walter White personally,”
be said, “and I don’t ♦>»**■ the
NAiACP today is what he wanted
it to be.”
As for the possible use of the
NAiACP by the Communists in fur
thering its own program, FetcMt
declared, "The Communists use
Hie organization—anybody. I’ve
seen the influence even in the pul
pit.
“And if tbey’Te using the NA
AGP, you can only say that the
people in that organization are
human.”
But, he went on, he doesn’t think
the current program of the or
ganization—whether Oomnnunist
inspired or not—is the right pro
gram for the South. “You can’t
force integration,’’ he said. “If it
came as a natural order, that
would be right.”
Fetchit denied sharply that his
characterization of the Negro ever
belittled his fellow man.
. “1 think I was admired by every
body, Negro and white, for what I
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was,” he said. <4I was a human
being with a talent, aod respected
as such. I don’t think I ever be
Negro to become famous in movies,
littied the Negro race.
“On the other hand, as the first
I think I helped to lift the Negro
a little higher .than he was.”
Febcfcit said he hasn’t appeared
in a movie since *1060, when he
made “Send of the River” with
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He said he resented the cast
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the NAACP in denouncing the type
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And just to prove that the old
Stepin Fetchit isn’t dead—in spite
of his soon-to-be 06 years—Fetch
it donned Ms rubber baldy cap, to
make him appear bald, put on a
floppy, moth-eaten felt hat, and
went into a comedy routine.
It doubled his small audience
with laughter.
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ended, “still is one of the best ton
ics in the world. And a humorist
is the greatest ambassador any
race or nation can claim.”
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