SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1935. Volume 6. Number 5.

"The Black Girl's Brother" Again

"The Black Girl's Brother" Again.

Dear "Smad,"—

An innocent, unsophisticated little nigger thanks Mr. Miller for his epistle on two of the attendant evils of authorship, but frankly admits that, in spite of all Mr. Miller's "irresistible longing" and "what-oh-ing," his soul is still intact.

Mr. Miller is truly a conundrum. He spends two-thirds of his letter in treating what he says is unimportant, and dismisses what he holds is important, together with my question, in seven lines! And to cap it all, he renders in conclusion two paragraps—one on Marxian Communism (which I made no pretension to support) and the other on a plea for mysticism. Further, in the course of his letter he assumes on no adequate grounds that I "advocate" atheism.

Mr. Miller misses the point of my argument in connection with the lamentable history of the Church. I will repeat it more simply for his benefit. The men who committed the atrocities a chronicle of which, as Mr. Miller says, can be found in "any thorough church history," were men who claimed to have encountered the "personal intervention of God in their lives." Now, if these men, all of whom had received this "personal intervention" could commit such crimes, are we not entitled to suppose that this "personal intervention" is not enough to reform the world?

And now, to please the irritated Mr. Miller—an unconditional confession—first my real name is Kabuish and I live in the Nuba mountains; and, secondly, the whole of this letter is taken verbatim from "An innocent . . . dictionary, from the Shorter Oxford Dictionary.

The Black Girl's Brother.