The Augusta Courier

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By ROY V. HARRIS

This race mixing insanity is becoming more chaotic every day.

U. S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT has done more to present to the people of the nation the insanity behind the race mixing schemes than any other one agency in the United States.

In its issue of November 7, 1958, it carried two interesting articles.

One was written by a white girl from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who is now a student in college, and it deals with her experiences in an integrated high school.

Her article is entitled, "I Spent Four Years In An Integrated High School".

The other is written by a Negro who is an executive in the Circulation Department of the Philadelphia Bulletin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He entitles his article, "A Plea For Understanding".

These two articles clearly demonstrate that the average person has no understanding of the problems involved in race mixing.

The Negro is absolutely unable to comprehend.

Even the people who reside in the Northern cities and vote for integration candidates have no understanding of the problem. They simply run from the problem.

This girl from Milwaukee calls her high school Lakeside High School and here are two paragraphs from her article:

"Lakeside High School was in the path of progress. By 'progress' is meant the gradual changing of the surrounding neighborhood from white to colored. This seems to happen almost everywhere when Negroes start to move into what was formerly an all-white area. The whole changing-over process takes approximately five years. The change that takes place in that period of time is astonishing. Despite the fact that the residents have lived there for years, when the change does start practically all the old residents will be gone in the space of five years.

"Once the change starts, it picks up speed like a snowball going downhill. Within my four years at Lakeside, the proportion of white and colored students had almost exactly reversed. It was about two thirds white when I entered as a freshman and it was two thirds colored when I graduated."

She has accurately described what is taking place in the Northern cities. The white people are running from the Negro as they would run from the plague.

They have segregation in the Northern cities.

Their segregation is based entirely upon residence.

Some of these days they are not going to be able to run and when that time comes they will stand still and fight. They will then adopt the same attitude that the people of the South have adopted.

Now, the Negro writer had this to say:

"We have in the U. S. today more friendly-relations groups, more fellowship organizations, more 'brotherhood' agencies, more love-thy-neighbor movements, more people speaking out forthrightly against segregation than ever before. Yet racial tensions and misunderstandings have never been so acute.

"Why? This is a question that profoundly concerns every one of us, white and Negro.

"Why, for instance, in the Northern city of Cincinnati, did voters suddenly change their way of voting when a Negro con-

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tinued to get so many votes that there was a possibility he might become a city's mayor?

"Why, in the city of Philadelphia, is there no recognition of the Negro at the policy-making level in the field of youth work, though the party in power is maintained there by the blind vote of Democratic Negro voters?

I would like to tell this Negro why.

All these brotherhood groups and love-thy-neighbor groups are preaching and shouting against segregation. But when it comes right down to that last step of taking them into the bosom of their families they are against it.

When it comes down to the question of mixing the races so as to destroy both the white and the Negro races and creating a race of mulattoes, the white man can't stomach it.

He asked why a Negro councilman had been elected in Cincinnati for a period of fifteen years and suddenly the people in his ward turned on him and voted him out of office. I can answer that question. The Negro councilman was acceptable to the white people of his ward until the Negro started pushing into the white neighborhood of Cincinnati and trying to invade all of the schools and the other public institutions.

So long as the Negroes were content to be segregated in their residential areas in Cincinnati the people were willing for him to be in city council. It is understood that he made a good record as a councilman, but in view of the tensions that exist at the present time and the Negro's efforts to push himself on the white man, the people of this ward wanted no Negro in a high place in their city.

Likewise, the city of Philadelphia is living in a state of fear. The Negroes are pushing out into white neighborhoods and running people away from the homes in which they were born and reared and they are resentful of it.

They are victims of the philosophy that there is such a thing as a little bit of race mixing. They are content with a little bit of race mixing, but when the hordes of Negroes began to overflow their communities they fled as if fleeing from a plague.

This Negro ought to know why.

He himself expressed it very well.

He states that all individuals are interested in the Negro's making progress but never when he becomes a part of the whole society.

He recognizes that they are for better housing for Negroes, but they don't want too many Negroes in their own neighborhood.

Here's how he expressed it:

"In all these individuals, whether they are for the Negro or against him, their attitude always implies acts of specific direction for one group or the other, and never for the entire society.

"I am convinced that these concepts are widely held by many of the estimated 15 million non-Negroes. They are not only found among the supporters of the program of a Faubus or Almond. They are found in many of our race-relations organizations. They profess to do good. They constantly rave about the progress of the Negro. They are for Negroes moving into better housing, provided too many don't move it—they are the quota citizens.

This Negro leader expressed the aim of the Negroes and the aim of the Negroes is the "why" white people, both North and South, are opposed to race mixing.

Here's what he said:

"We must understand that Negroes are as concerned for the future of America as any other individual member of its melting pot."

White people, both North and South, object to being thrown into a melting pot with the Negro. Now, the "melting pot" is the "why".

White people would like to preserve the white race. They would like to preserve the Negro race.

The white people of America are opposed to a race of mulattoes.

Yet, that is what these Negroes are after and that's why there can be no understanding satisfactory to such Negroes as the writer of this article. Now, these do-gooders will meet with them. They will form brotherhood societies, they will form love-thy-neighbor movements, but when it comes down to going that last mile and seeing their children thrown into the melting pot, they revolt.

Now, the Negro ought to be as opposed to being thrown into the melting pot as the white man is. He ought to be proud of his own race and interested in preserving his own race.

But these Negroes, like the writer of this article, are ashamed of their own race. They are out to destroy their own race. They are out to destroy the white race.

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They are only interested in promoting a melting pot and even these brotherhood groups and love-thy-neighbor groups are for it all until it gets up to their doorsteps.

They are opposed to throwing their own children into this melting pot.

That's why they can organize all these fellowship organizations, all these brotherhood agencies and all these love-thy-neighbor movements and they can have all these hypocrites speaking out against segregation.

But when it comes to going into the melting pot even these fanatical brotherhood and fellowship and love-thy-neighbor folks stop at that last milepost.

Now, as soon as the white people find out the objectives of such Negro leaders as the writer of this article, then racial tensions and misunderstandings become acute.

Now, we know that it is hard for this Negro to understand all of these things. He goes to these brotherhood, fellowship and love-thy-neighbor meetings and then when he comes out he must say as he did in this article:

"Racial tensions and misunderstandings have never been so acute."

And he asks why!

The "why" is the melting pot.

And this Negro says this about these lovers of the Negro:

"These lovers of the Negro are often more dangerous to the welfare of the country than those who profess to hate the Negro.

In many instances these persons with their professed love will give him a job in their plant, and keep him on that job for his entire life with no opportunity for individual growth."

All this race mixing propaganda hasn't helped the Negro. The writer of the article in U. S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT frankly admits it when he says:

"We are aware that in most Northern cities jobs which once included Negroes have suddenly vanished."

Now, this Negro can't understand why.

Why is it that Negroes used to be able to get jobs they can't touch now?

The answer is because they are trying to push themselves on the white people and force a melting of the white and Negro races into a race of mulattoes.

So long as the Negro was content to be a Negro Northern people were willing to give him jobs. As soon as he became dissatisfied at being a Negro and sought to be something else, then they let him slip out of the jobs in sensitive positions and positions where he came in close contact with white people.

I have news for this Negro leader. There will be fewer and fewer jobs for Negroes in the Northern cities in the future than at the present where the job itself brings the Negro into close or intimate contact with white people.

There was a time that in most any hotel one entered the bellboys and porters were Negroes.

When this race mixing scheme started the Negro bellboys became insolent to white people and tried to be on an intimate basis with white women.

Now Negro bellboys are fast becoming a thing of the past. Negro porters are fast becoming a thing of the past.

This is true because white men and white women fear the Negro bellboys and porters entering the hotel bedrooms while they occupy them.

The pushing of the Negro into the life of the white man is forcing the white man to push the Negro just as far away from him as he possibly can.

This is true in the North as well as in the South.

I can write better about the South because I know more about it and because I know more Southern people.

I know whole communities where they are getting together and deliberately planning to ease the Negroes out of their jobs and to gradually work white people into them. They are determined to rid the communities of a lot of their Negroes.

They fear the consequences of a large percentage of Negro population.

They are determined that their children shall not be thrown into the melting pot.

This Negro pleads for understanding. The white man understands. This Negro cannot understand.

Sensible white people understand that these Negro leaders are after creating a melting pot.

Sensible white people know that these Negro leaders are not pleading for understanding.

They are pleading for the acceptance of the idea of a melting pot.

This the white man will not accept. He will not accept it this year, or ever.

If understanding means acceptance of the melting pot, there will never be any understanding.