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The Pendulum
Thursday, October 18,1|
Helms
Continued from page 5
I remember as a child repeat
ing the words of adults around
me, that I should not go to
school with black kids; 10 years
later, after having peacefully
coexisted with blacks in class
and elsewhere, and having
black friends, I had learned
that I had never had anything
to fear.
I am convinced that today
white and black children, hav
ing had contact with each other
all their lives, recognize far
fewer obstacles between the
races than I or my parents did
as children. I believe absolute
ly that the obstacles will con
tinue to fade with each succes
sive generation—that is, unless
a reactionary demagogue, who
holds or seeks power, uses the
mass communications media to
try to reconstruct the obsta
cles. And that is exactly what
Jesse Helms is doing.
“Propaganda,” says Ellul,
“must be based on some truth
that can be said in a few words
and is able to linger in the col
lective consciousness.” The 15-
, 30- and 60-second television
commercials, the staple of
Helms’ campaign, are the ideal
I megaphones for the senator to
call to the hideous monster of
racism that lurks in some cor
ner of our collective subcon
scious and beckon it to the sur
face once again.
Or so he thinks.
With our votes on Nov. 6, we
can reject the lie, spread by
Helms and his henchmen, that
there has been no racial prog
ress. We can reject his view of
most people—that they are too
lazy, gullible or stupid to know
the truth, that people need his
propaganda. In short, we must
disprove the “big lie” theory by
voting Jesse Helms, its practi
tioner, out of office.
We can stop Helms before he
does any more damage to our
new feeling of community. It
will take the combination of
Democrats and those Republi
cans who dislike Helms but so
far have not spoken against
him out of fear or party loyalty.
We cannot be like those Ger
mans who felt superior to Hit
ler, who merely stood on the
sidelines and laughed at crazy
old Adolf and his kook Nazis as
the shadows of genocide leng
thened across Europe.
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