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Editorial
November 7, 1960
The Atlanta Inquirer
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
What is this article about?
The editorial anticipates a future election where race is no longer a political issue, but notes its prominence in the 1960 November election. It highlights gains for the Negro community through party loyalty and expects Negro involvement among both winners and losers.
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THIS ELECTION AND ANOTHER
There's an election year coming at some point in the future which will be the election year in which nobody will notice that it is. It will be the election year in which race and the race issue will shape no platforms, crowd no headlines, cause no candidates to squirm. Race will be dead as a political issue simply because democracy will be more nearly a living and breathing fact of everyday existence. Politicians and voters alike will drop it as they dropped Prohibition, the ten-hour work day and the consequences for good or evil of allowing women to vote. But race, or civil rights, or the Negro vote will definitely not be a forgotten issue in the election of this November. 1960.
Those of us who are independents are prevented from feeling like outcasts because of the obvious interest both parties have in helping us to make up our minds. At the same time, we realize that in our own city and state and everywhere else in the nation there are countless gains which have come, often unpublicized, to individual Negroes and to the greater Negro community because some Negro Democrat or some Negro Republican had 'paid his dues' in long and honorable support of his party. While we wait for that "raceless" election, we are encouraged to know that whatever the outcome of Tuesday's election there will be Negroes in the ranks of the winners as well as of the losers.
There's an election year coming at some point in the future which will be the election year in which nobody will notice that it is. It will be the election year in which race and the race issue will shape no platforms, crowd no headlines, cause no candidates to squirm. Race will be dead as a political issue simply because democracy will be more nearly a living and breathing fact of everyday existence. Politicians and voters alike will drop it as they dropped Prohibition, the ten-hour work day and the consequences for good or evil of allowing women to vote. But race, or civil rights, or the Negro vote will definitely not be a forgotten issue in the election of this November. 1960.
Those of us who are independents are prevented from feeling like outcasts because of the obvious interest both parties have in helping us to make up our minds. At the same time, we realize that in our own city and state and everywhere else in the nation there are countless gains which have come, often unpublicized, to individual Negroes and to the greater Negro community because some Negro Democrat or some Negro Republican had 'paid his dues' in long and honorable support of his party. While we wait for that "raceless" election, we are encouraged to know that whatever the outcome of Tuesday's election there will be Negroes in the ranks of the winners as well as of the losers.
What sub-type of article is it?
Partisan Politics
Slavery Abolition
What keywords are associated?
Race Issue
1960 Election
Negro Vote
Civil Rights
Party Support
Democracy
What entities or persons were involved?
Democrats
Republicans
Negroes
Independents
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Race As A Political Issue In The 1960 Election
Stance / Tone
Optimistic About Future Racial Equality In Politics
Key Figures
Democrats
Republicans
Negroes
Independents
Key Arguments
Future Elections Will Ignore Race As Democracy Becomes More Inclusive
Race Remains A Key Issue In The 1960 November Election
Party Loyalty By Negroes Has Led To Unpublicized Community Gains
Negroes Will Participate In Both Winning And Losing Political Outcomes