The Atlanta Inquirer

Albany Suffering
From Master Race
Psychology?

From the beginning of the
well-publicized civil rights
struggle in Albany, friends
and informants have been
telling us that at least two
important white leaders are
playing very important and
little-publicized roles.

These gentlemen, we have
been told have a good deal to
do with what is said in Albany
and considerable influence
on what is done.

Because it fits in so well
with what we've been told of
the attitudes of these good
Democrats, we can't help
noticing the language of some
of the statements that came
out of Albany while the bus
company was closing down
and boycott of stores was
tightening.

In one statement the ma-
jority group in the city gov-
erment referred to the "ar-
rogance" of the Negro lead-
ership. That is. it is evid-
ently a mark of arrogance to
expect the minimal decen-
cies provided any white citi-
zen of the town.

A still more recent de-
claration allowed that the
city fathers might lend ear to the
proper
"entreaties
coming from the Negro lead-
ers. Our dictionary defines
"entreaty
as
"an earnest
request"; supplication; pra-
yer." It comes from the word
"entreat"
"to ask earn-
estly;
beg;
beseech; im-
plore.

This seems to us to smack
of 'Master Race' lingo, based
on the assumption that some
inferior
group in Albany
must beg its way into the good
graces
of
some superior
group.

You would think that in 1962
no
member of the New
Frontiers' party would be
trying to solve problems in
that particular tone of voice,
If not even in Georgia.