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Leadership (1930)

The Deacon; California Eagle, February 21, 1930

   If you have political ambition
To fill a leaders place,
   Then advocate separate schools,
And segregation of the Negro race.
 
   Stand up and tell the public
That colored children are unfit,
   To join with other children,
In a public benefit.
 
   Then you are on the road,
To receive great public applause,
   From those who may desire
To change the segregation laws.
 
   The black advocates of segregation,
Are a sly and foxy groupe [sic];
   They wear the mask of hypocricy [sic];
To deception they freely stoop.
 
   Some of our leaders,
Demand Jim Crow Public [sic] schools;
   And secretly demand segregation
In the public swimming pools.

   If these Jim Crow Negro leaders,
Suffering with dysentery of the mouth; [sic]
   Are lonesome without segregation
They should return to the South.
 
   Return to the sunny southland,
With their Uncle Tom devotions,
   Their inferiority complex minds,
And segregation notions.
 
   Lord, purge our race of hypocrites
And set our vision straight;
   Free our minds of prejudice,
Deceit, suspicion and hate.