Jackson Advocate

See Walter Sillers Statement As Block To Race Relations Racket
Jackson, Miss., Oct. 28 (DSN) .The statement by the Honorable Walter L. Sillers, Speaker of the House of Representative of the Mississippi State Legislature, in his comment in regard to the extra-ordinary Session of the Legislature called to meet here next week drew the highest praise from Negro Citizens of Jackson, as well as throughout the state, many of them expressing the hope that the statement would put a stumbling block into the Race-relations Racket carried on by certain so-called Negro leaders, both from within and from without the state.

Negro leaders in expressing the hope that the Sillers statement would put a stumbling-block in its way, if not end the Race Relations Racket in the state point out that the worst harm being done in the way of improving race-relations in the state is being done by certain Negro Leaders who with their hands out for a cash donation go about the state telling responsible white people that Negroes are satisfied with things as they are, and all other kinds of tales so long as they can get their hands in the white people's pocket.

According to an Associated Press Report the influential Bolivar County Representative and Speaker of the House said, "I am not

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criticizing Governor Hugh White for calling the session nor am I finding fault with the authors of the program. I simply am not convinced we can accomplish much before we know the U. S. Supreme Court ruling of segregation."

The speaker said that he would not attempt to sabotage the session, "but I will vote my own convictions and let the other members know where I stand. Right now I don't know how I will vote."

He said some of the 18 Legislator authors of the program designed to give Negro and white children equal educational opportunities, had argued that most Mississippi Negroes will be satisfied with equal but separate schools.

"I don't believe this. I think the Negroes or any other race will not be satisfied until they feel equal or superior to any other race. I don't say I blame them, I'm just looking at what I believe is human nature," he commented.