NAACP Versus Religion
The NAACP sent an agent to Alabama to check the progress in integration of churches. After a few weeks of checking around, he called headquarters to file his report. “How about the Catholics?” asks his boss.
“The Catholics are doing okay; they got the right idea.”
“What about the Methodists?”
“They’ve come a long way,” says the agent. “They’re doing just fine.”
“And the Baptists?” asks the boss.
“I just want to know one thing,” he says. . . “When they baptize you, how long are they supposed to hold you under?”