“Smash Sufi’s Race-Mating Poison!” demands the Negro Liberator, official weekly organ of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, in the leading editorial of its issue out Saturday.
“There has arisen in Harlem,” the editorial states, “a dangerous enemy to the Negro masses, in the person of Sufi Abdul Hamid. Sufi, known as ‘Black Hitler,’ is head of the Negro Industrial Clerical Alliance, an organization through which he is spreading a vulgar and vicious type of hocus-pocus which can have only one effect, and that is the promotion of the vilest race hatred between Negro and white workers and the ultimate breaking out of ‘race riots.’
“In short, Sufi is trying to persuade Negro people to hate all whites, and especially the Jews….”
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