Chapter IX: Public Opinion in Race Relations (6)

Do you believe there should be Are not the mistakes of
recognized leaders of Negroes? Negro leaders manifest?
Are there such persons whom
you regard as qualified for
leadership? Discuss their merits
and demerits.

What in your opinion, are some of
the greatest mistakes of prominent
Negroes in their policies or stand
on racial issues?

At the time of this article the Commission had made no report of its findings whatever, and there was no possible basis for the accusation of bias. When a Negro living in Chicago explained that the questionnaire was prepared by a Negro member of the Commission's staff, the editor of the _Crisis_ replied that "whoever framed the questionnaire of which I speak in the _Crisis_ or advised its framing had a bias against Negroes. Of that I have not the slightest doubt, and what I was doing was simply to warn the public of this bias."