Professor Franklin Frazier, of Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., was guest speaker at the City Wide Young People's Forum held in Baltimore, Md., last week. In the course of his address, Professor Frazier contended that p ractically all of the Negro leaders in the past had tried to make the race a group of imitators, which, in his opinion, was the incorrect psychology of leadership. He offers that bleaching the skin and straightening the hair should be discarded and more attention paid to the maintenance of the original identity of the Negro. Dr. Clark Foreman, advisor to the Negro in this present administration, was deemed unfit for his position.

One reads the Professor's address and wonders about certain critical statements made; for example, the questioning of the leadership of Booker T. Washington, the founder of one of the greatest Negro educational institutions in the world, and the expressed doubt of the wisdom of W. E. B. Dubois, editor of "The Crisis" and active officer of the N. A. A. C. P. One is still surprised as the Professor continues his discourse of dissatisfaction with every eminent Negro, from Dou glas down to present day leaders, and sincerely wonders what next?

Finally, Professor Frazier praised Marcus Garvey for his work and expressed his belief that the most important step in Negro leadership was made by this scheming West Indian who attempted to operate his Black Star Line year s ago for the purpose of taking all Negroes who could pay the passage fee, to Africa in his secondhanded boat. All things considered, we are forced to one of the two facts concerning Professor Frazier; namely, either he was previously preoccupied, so tha t he did not have time to prepare a speech, or loyalty to and pride in one's race are too inconsequent to pierce his cerebral skin.