Chicago World

AN OPEN LETTER TO
THE STATE OF GEORGIA
By ROBERT MACK MORRIS

Dear State of Georgia:

You are guilty of many horrible crimes, committed in offense against your colored citizens.

You defy the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by tolerating yellow-bellied share-croppers to roam through your dusty streets with dingy sheets over their heads while you sit back in your lurid form of justice and demand that the north leave you alone and mind its own business.

You (the south) say you are quite capable of managing your own affairs. You yell to the top of your voice that the Negro problem, is the south's problem, and that you can and must settle it for yourself without outside influence.

However it will take a long time, you claim: but, the problem will be dealt with

MAKES FOOLS OF NEGROES

Now, you can be granted credit for your subtlety in dealing with us in this manner, because we Negroes in the east and north are damned fools to accept your kind of justice after crying out in feeble voices.

You treat us like a mother with a child that didn't belong to her, that was borne of another woman's womb; for when we cry you pat our shoulders and say:

"Now, now, baby dumpling.
Don't you cry. Mama didn't mean to hurt you. Here's a penny, honey—run and buy your sweet little self an all-day sucker!"

We cannot truthfully blame you for handling us this way, Georgia, because—well, if we have the audacity to call ourselves men and women—we should have common sense enough to be appeased by your promises and cuddling.

Yes, you can be forgiven for that.

TIRED FOR LYNCHING

But, Georgia, you've gone too damned far now. This time we CAN'T allow you to slip by with it; for you have made a direct insult to the Negro women of America. You have spit upon their womanhood in a manner which bears no forgiveness. Not only are Negroes up in verbal arms but Americans of all races are vociferating their protest against the outrageously ridiculous way you are lynching a woman and her two sons.

Our hearts are fed up. They cannot take anymore. Your licentious method of dealing out justice has become so ashamedly nauseating that we are seeking a place in which to vomit

BLAMES FAULTY GOV'T.

What manner of government do you possess that permits idiotic race haters to defile the beauty of JUSTICE by sitting in the seats of judgment and meting out prejudicial ruling pertaining to the lives of three human beings?

What sort of man sat in the judge's chair the day or days, on which Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram and her sons were condemned? Had he no decorum, manliness, respect or even the vaguest consideration for, LAW?

And the "Man" who is serving as your governor what sort of judicial impartiality does he up-