Atlanta Daily World

Right-But Wrong

The above caption would, according to its record, more accurately paraphrase the time worn subterfuge-"Separate but equal" which has piled up in its wake those irreparable and incurable casualties in the stratas of our civilization. Not only is this so, it has come the time to "nibble" at the grass-roots of our good offices and influence in the promulgation of a world peace. It has run side by side with every form of injustice and privation known to the catalogue of discrimination and is today seeking a place among the subversive footballs, that are being carried over the gridiron of freakish isms and unsavory propaganda.

Strange as it may seem, with its present and prominent evidences at every Negro school cross-road and the ugly detours it has made in the deformities of an educational structure, regimented and enforced upon children whose parents were reared out of the political structure and often chased from the bargaining counter of Democratic procedures.

We long for peace, especially within the confines of our state family-circle and fervently do we pray for a standard meant for men, not races, to the end of effective brotherhood and Christian relationship.

Down the long and weary years, we are at last met with a crisis. We stand at the crossroads, over whose parting paths we read in the sign of retribution, at Caesar's Rubicon-"Stop and consider." There is where we stand today in the midst of one of the most restless stages of this nation, in its stride to continue a Republic "under God-a government that shall not perish from the face of the earth."

While there are those who are spending their energies and vain worship around the flesh pots of a dying past, that has already written its epitaph, they surely must love their America more. Here is a priceless heritage, whose basic structure, was commended of no less a brilliant statesman than William Pitt, the most important document ever given off at any time within its framework that has braved the ages, and is daily unraveling the noble principles of equality and justice.

Those of another generation will doubtless look upon the vain worshippers, still not convinced that the majesty of our courts will not tolerate circumvention, with pity and regret and will weep over the ashes of the dead fires that burned up the finest opportunities of an era on the sacrificial altar of "separate-but equal" and having at its polluted roots the fertilizer, "right-But WRONG"!

"Separate-BUT EQUAL"!

Two funny words, indeed, more ambiguous than the trick-catch-phraseology of the scribes and Pharisees. They have struggled down the ages in the sheep-clothes of delusion and prostituted every citadel they encompassed; still-"they went into no quarters for winter, pitched no tent at nightfall"-and have left among us-their dead to bury its dead.