THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, APRIL 7, l»5g
THE FALLACY OF THE MONGROIZATION
We have listened to and
watched with a degree of a-
musement, if not astonish-
■MBt, the various arguments
•nd statements of some so-
called southern leaders on
the question of mongreli-
zation. If the American white
man is not the world’s cham
pion mongrelizer as well as,
himself, the world’s most
mongrdized human being we
would like to know who is.
The asininity of southern
white folks in their conten
tion that they are deeply con
cerned about the purity of
their race evokes from us a
good old'' fashioned horse
laugh.
In the first place, there is
hardly a white family in the
South of 50 years duration or
more than doesn’t have one
or more Negroes sitting on
limbs of its family tree. The
only difference is that their
forbears were so minus mor
ality, conmion decency and
ARGUMENT
Christian principles that they
enacted laws which prohibit
ed marriage and therefore
stripped Negro women of any
protection against the lust or
love of a white man. That was
tlieir ungodly idea of keep
ing the white race pure and
from becoming mongrelized.
It is still their idea.
In the second place, the
Caucasian of flaxen hair and
blue eyes is rarer in America
than a full blood Negro
American. A casual glance at
an audience of white people
will find them with hair
ranging from coal *black to
platinum, straight to kinky.
Noses from sharp and point
ed as an ice pick to flat dnd
stubby as a pug dog, lips from
thin as tissue paper to as thick
as an African aborigine. So
far as the color of his skin, it
ranges anywhere from light
brown to putty white.
Other features of the Amer
ican white man, whether
North or South, belie the con
tention that in this country
every person classed as white
is of pure Caucasian descent.
The great fear of the southern
white man is not mongreli-
zation per se, but that under
a non-segregated society he
will be forced to dignify his
heretofore clandestine love
affair across the railroad
tracks with marriage. Being
one of the world’s greatest
mongrelizers, he does not trust
himself in the arena where
men and women are free to
pick and choose their mates.
To protect himself from the
penalty he therefore cries out
tiiat a non-segregated society
means mpngrelization when
every Negro whose skin' is not
hacK is a living testimony to
the fact that mongrelization
outside of the law has been
going on since the first Negro
woman walked down the gang
plank and set feet on these
shores.
ANOTHER WARNING TO AMERICA
In an editorial of THE
CAROUNA TIMES, igsue of
December 24th, we warned
American citizens of the dan
ger attending the springing
up in the ^uth of organi
zations such as the Patriots
and others of similar nature.
Here is what we said in
that editorial:
“Let no one be mistaken
about the Patriots —~4r
probably they should be
called the “Hatriots.” This
now small but fierce organi
zation, if allowed to con
tinue on its way, may in
time become the undoing
of whatever there is left of
American Democracy. Its'
deliberate and open de
fiance of the U. S. Supreme
Court, its disdain for the
U. S. Constitution are even
more than the Communists
in our midst have ever had
the gall to do. Yet withal,
the Patriots have been
chartered by the state and
have embarked upon their
hellish mission, the same as
Mussolini and Hitler. So,
in the not too distant future,
as Mark Twain once said
about war, you will see this
curious thing: speakers
against segregation “ston
ed from the platform and
free speech strangled by
hordes of furious men, who
in their hearts are still as
one with those stoned
speakers — but do not dare
say so. And now the whole
nation, pulpit, and all will
take up the cry for segre
gation and mob any honest
man who ventures to open
his mouth; and presently
such mouths will cease to
open.” We warn America
to keep an eternal eye on
the Patriots, whose unholy
purpose and methods lof
achieving it have already
been openly admitted. We
warn America to treat this
organization as other sub
versive groups whose ulti
mate goal is the overthrow
of the American govern
ment. For when an organi
zation openly defies the
highest court in the land
and attacks the Constitu
tion of the ntion, it is time
for all loyal American cit
izens to go on guard duty.”
And now the Christian Cen
tury, undenominational per
iodical of Chicago, takes up
the warning. In its issue of
March 21st, it had the follow
ing to say with reference to
the White Citizens Councils,
now being organized all over
the South:
“On the other hand, the
the white citizens’ coun
cils have organized to drive
moderate elements into si
lence or out of the south.
They prefer to work
through economic organi
zations — banks, stores,
machinery companies, plan
tations, marketing asso
ciations — but they do not
stop there. They seek to in
filtrate and dominate every
center of power, small or
large. They try to control,
the administration of gov*
ernment- from |iwtic«B ef
the peace to legislators,
governors and United Sta
tes senators. They manipul
ate the authorities in educa
tion from local to state
boards. They are out to rule
the^ churches from congre
gations to state organi
zations. and openly boast
that they have accomplish
ed this aim in some de
nominations. If there was
any doubt about their pow
er, the growing number of
mmisters of both races
who have been compelled
to leave their pulpits should
be taken into account.
This is totalitarianism!
When the whole life of a
people is controlled from
behind the scenes by a pri
vate organization which is
not elected by the people
and is not responsible to
them, you have totalitarian
ism. It can be communist or
fascist; it cannot be demo
cratic. When such total con
trol is exercised to main
tain racial segregation and
white supremacy it becomes
the kind of evil thing which
was still rising in Germany
20 years ago. By its nature
this racist dictatorship ex
cludes the possibility of
moderation. It may recruit
moderate community lead
ers to serve as fronts, but
its policies are radical and
increasingly play into the
hands of extremists. It has
no intention of conforming
with the Supreme Court’s
ciecision now or later. It is
prepared to nullify, defy
and discredit the courts and
the law cn which American
justiee is based, and to snli-
stitute its own decisions,
from which there is no ap
peal, for them.
THE COST OF BEING RIGHT
Where the governor of
North Carolina has failed his
state lamentably in allowing
the dust of prejudice to blind
him to the responsibility of
leadership, there is one poli
tical figure in the state who
is at least sufficiently free
therefrom to see clearly the
danger of siding with such
Neo-Fascist organizations as
the Patriots of North Caro
lina, Inc. f
That political figure is Rep.
Thurmond Chatham, who is
seeking re-election to his
Washington seat in the Fifth
Congressional District. Mr.
Chatham cl^eed that the
self-styled Patriots are ob
structionists, blocking the
path to the solution of the
race question.
“They are hurting us by all
their aotation.” And he
charges further that, instead
of contributing solutions to
the race problem, the Patriots
are making the issue more
complicated.
He did not speak amiss be
cause, despite a high-sound-
ing name, the Patriots are a
bunch of bigots, bloated with
superiority feelings, making
lying pretensions of Ameri-
c a n i s m and hypocritical
claims of patiiotism, to cov
er activities which cannot but,
weaken the United States’
leadership in world affairs.
In reahty, the Patriots are
but so many leeches sucking
the life blood of unity at home
and the country’s prestige a-
broad.
With regard to all the fur
or, excitement, schemes and
plans to circumvent the de
cision of the Supreme Court,
Mr. Chatham bluntly says of
that decision, “we should
forget about it. It’s already
law.”
Blasted by the Patriots for
his stand on the race issue,
-Mr. Chatham has courageous
ly stood his ground as is evi
denced in answers to several
questions submitted to him
in a letter by these Patriots
of segregation.
Asked as to whether sep
arate schools is an absolute
necessity to the best interest
of members of both races, Mr.
Chatham answered, “This is
not the question. The Su
preme Court has ruled and
for going on two years it has
been the final law of the
land.”
A forthright 'answer was
also given to a question as to
whether the Constitution can
mean one thing for seventy-
years anti then something
else completely opposite over
night, Mr. Chatham replied:
“Unless the Constitution is
interpreted in the light of
issues as they arise there can
be no orderly government.
What body except the Su
preme Court could possibly
make that interpretation?”
The Fifth District Repre
sentative might have gone a
step further to state that the
decision of seventy years ago,
which was made null and void
by the recent High Court de
cision, should never have
been made. “Equal but Sep
arate” was morally indefen
sible then and has been
through the years. It con
travened the law of justice
and brotherhood and every
principle of democracy, as
well as proving a coUosal eco
nomic blunder and making
the white people of the South
parties to a conspiracy to
evade even that imjust law to
rob Negroes, not only of edu
cational opportunities and
facilities for which they were
taxed, but to degrade them,
as prejudice worked without
shame within the framework
of a segregated society sup
ported by law.
Recent Supreme Court de
cisions banning segregated
public schools was but cor
recting, therefore, a wrong
SATURDAY
L. E. AUSTIN
CLATHAN M. ROSS
H. ALBERT SMITH
€bcCai§ilaC!me0 april 7,1955
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dedsioii made decades ago.
And the Patriots, red hot with
u^ghteous indignation, be
cause, at long last, right has
prevailed over a wrong whidi
they would perpetuate even
by rebelling against the law
of the lahd, are out to slay
politically any leader who
has the guts to defend the
change.
These very unpatriotic Pa
triots nuiy not succeed in their
efforts, but they are out for
the scalp of another North
Carolina leader who refuses
to see eye-to«ye with them.
But that is the price of states
manship, like leadership, and
we hope Mr. Chatham will not
step backwards if, pay the
price, he must, and that in
full.
Life Is Like That
By fl. ALBERT SMITH
Misfortime No Fruit Of Conspiracy
Many of us face from time to just and the unjust, and the rain
time experiences that leave us
limp with discouragement and
in the grip of despair. We use
our imaginations to explore the
future, and the only prtwpfecv
that faces us in an insuperable
insecittity. On every horizon,
there are storm clouds, bl«^
and menacing, from wiiose
depths proceed deep, porten-
tious cumplings of disquieting
thunder and terrifying flashes
of lightning.
Habitual DUpair
A state of mind lilce that has
in many persons Ijecome chro
nic ana iiabitual. Concerning
these persons, we cannot be too
severe in our judgment. For
some of them have not merely
one bitter and dissilusioning
experience, but many which
have followed each other in un
broken succession. And thus
they have come to feel that for
them, there can be no future of
success and joy.
Mahmg Worse
The thing that makes matters
worse for such persons is that
they themselves are quite fre
quently highly idealistic, in
nately good and trusting, hold
ing to scruples that most people
so far as they can see, trample
upon with scorn and without re
criminations of conscience. Yet,
these persons who spurn pro
prieties and have no fundamen
tal regard for law, human or di
vine, apparently liave what it
takes to gain positions of ad
vantage in life. On the other
hand, their idealistic and pro-
priety-conscious cousins always
find themselves in positions of
disadvantage.
Not Too Helpful
To tell these persons that the
advantage of the imscrupulous
and principaled is only seem
ing in many instances and not
real, does not seem to be of too
much help. This is largely due to
two causes. First of all, the re
tribution befalling such persons
is seldom of a nature so drama
tic as to become spectacuto, or
invite attention: second, because
some of us iiave not yet learned
that in life there is a law of
sacrifice which requires the
righteous man to suffer.
Another Factor
And there is another factor
we should not forget. Jesus sum
med it up when he said that God
makes the sun to shine on the
10 fall upon the just an'a me un
just. All of thi.s means, there
fore that in the operations of na
tural provideuce.s, mis matter ot
benefits or disadvantages which
may) befall a person, wnether he
be *goud or evil, depends on
where he happens to be.
Cose Cited
Possibly, another woid oi
Jesus may help us nere. a group
in contact wiUi the Master on
one occasion toid him about a
group of Galileans whose blood
>*ilate had mingled with ineir
sacrifices, it is apparent that
those citing the instances neia
the popular opinion that sin
above th^t of otiiers bad brought
slaughter upon those persons.
JVo Worse
The Master disclaimed that
this was the case. They were no
worse than anyljody else. Ana
be went on to cite how the tow
er of Siloam had fallen to kill
eighteen persons. But it hap
pened not because they' were
sinners above others in Jerusa
lem. They just happened to be
near that tower at the wrong
time.
Lost Two Daughters
Last Sunday, 1 talked with a
heart-broken mother who has
lost two daugJiters in a little
more than four months. The
first instance of death was not
unexpected as tliat daughter,
after undergoing surgery, was
in a precarious condition. But
the passing of the other just a
few weeks ago, a woman both
beautiful and apparently in
sound health, came with stun
ning suddenness. I shall not soon
forget that weeping mother,
well up in years, bewildered
and grief-stricken, as she tear
fully entreated me to pray God
to give her strength to bear her
trial.
Pifzzliriff Contrast
I^o^fr, here is a woman, I have
found to be consistently Chris
tian in spirit, attitude and obli
gation. But, whai happens? Two
lovely daughters claimed by
death within fife months. 1
could point to a few other wo
men consistently otherwise, and
nothing has happened to them.
Use Bright Colors
In the face of such experiences,
it is not strange that some
people see nothing but insecuri
ty in the future. But strange or
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Letter To The Editor
The Editor
Dear Sir:
Hearing the Southern wliite
man defend segregation, I am
reminded of Alexander Pope’s
well known proverb;
“Words are like leaves, and
where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is
rarely found.”
^The pro-segregationists have
talked loud and long of the dan
ger that desegregation in the
public schools will lead to. They
have expressed the fear that it
will destroy the amiable rela
tionship now existing between
the races in the South. Recently
a bloc of southern congressmen
expressed that same fear in a
manifesto, and Senator Elrwin,
in an article in Look magazine,
carried the doctrine even fur
ther with the use of the term,
“h a r m o n io u s relationship.’’
These documents, purportedly,
represent the southern point of
view.
Have I been looking in the
wrong- direction? With the ex
ception of a few years in the
army and a few years in school
outside of the area, all my life
has been spent m the South.
This is the picture that I have
seen:
Negro in the “eagle’s nest,”
“Caucasian in the Orchestra
pit—Is that an amiable relation
ship? Colored in the rear of the
bus, white in the front--Is that
an amiable relationship?
Sunday morning, eleven
o’clock, and off to chiu*ch we
go—White Methodist, Colored
Methodist; White Baptist, Color
ed Baptist; White Catholic,
Colored Catholic, elich goes his
separate way to worship the
One God diu-ing AMERICA’S
MOST SEGREGATED HOUR-Is
that an amiable relationship?
White school, beautiful and spa
cious, sitting atop Sugar Hill;
Colored school, ugly and over
crowded, in the little shack
across the track. “We have
equality,” so v'e hear, but
equality must be a relative
term—Is that an amiable rela
tionship?
Maybe it is-for the white
man, but I doubt it, because he
has a conscience.
Wiiat is this amiable relation
ship of which they speak? Ne
groes and whites in» the South
are not engaged in. physical
combat, but a lack of violence
is only the negative side of an
amiable relationship. It also
has a positive side. Amiable
amiable relationship. It also has
a positive side. Amiable carries
with it the idea of mutual fel
lowship and a spirit of friend
liness. Relationship implies con
tact and a sense of togetherness.
Have we had this friendly con
tact in the South? Can a spirit
of frienlly contact and of mu
tual fellowship exists where
walls of separation have been
erected? Does not the term,
“harmonious relationship,” im
ply that Negroes, as well as
whites, must help formulate and
execute the policies of the
South?
It is my humble opinion that
Kipling’s philosophy of “East
is east and west is west. And
never the twain shall meet” is a
false foundation for an amiable
relationship between groups.
Rather, the attitude of the
writer who said:
"In Christ there is no East or
West” seems to be a better prin
ciple on which to build solid
friendship.
In a word, the argument that
desegregation will destroy the
spirit of friendliness between
the races is foolish indeed. How
can you destroy something that
has never existed?
Sincerely yours,
John W. Fleming
RALEIGH, N. C.
Only Wifh Complete FreedomAnd Equalily,
Can There Be Peace." «
Spiritual Insight
“NON-VIOLENT WARFARE”
By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND
PtutoTf Mount Gilead Baptist Church
"Be not overcome by evil, over
come evil with good. "Romans
12:21”
What is the spiritual power of
non-violent Warfare? It is love
engaged in a spiritually offen
sive action against deeply en
trenched evil. It is love becom
ing the spiritual aggressor
against evil. It is love in its
matchless spiritual power go
ing out to engage and rout sin
and evil. Why? For evil is al
ways weak l>ecause it has a
spiritual and r^prally insensi
ble position. EW fights furious
ly and doggedly, but It must bite
the dust in defeat. Hatred is
weakness. He who resorts to
violence admits weakness and
frustration. You go out to bomb
a man in his house when his wife
and baby are sleeping. Is it that
strength or weakness? It is
weakness. It is the abject weak
ness of an empty and a degraded
soul. But love at work in Non-
Violent Warfare is strength,
spiritual and moral power of
the highest order.
Hatred is weakness, Preju
dice is weakness. The use of vio
lence against the lielpless is an
admission of abject weakness.
But love in action against deep
ly entrenched evil is the great
est weapon in all the world.
Phillip states it beautifully....
“TAKE THE OFFENSIVE—
OVERPOWER EVIL WITH
GOD.”
The people in Montgomery
have taken up this great wea
pon to fight and overcome deep
ly entrenched evil. What a noble
spiritual-moral drama we see
there—forty thousand people in
soul discipline against entrench
ed evil. This nation has never
seen the like. All they need do
is stick to their course and con
tinue to use this mighty weapon.
There will be intimidations,
threats, provocations, proddings
to use violence and hatred. They
will try to inflame all of the
frightening emotions of fear and
hatred. There may be more ar
rests and more imprisonments.
But if they will only continue
to be clad in the armour of Di
vine Love they will be able to...
“OVERCOME EVIL WITH
GOD..”
The li^ of Jesus is ever a
living warfare against deeply
entrenched evil. His life shows
that it works. God gave him the
victory over evil. So our hearts
have been aglow with, hope as
we have seen the people of
Montgomery adopt this weapon
in their struggle against evil for
human dignity. Yes, it is heart
warming to see foriy thousand
people engaged in a Non-vio
lent struggle for human dignity.
Men, in the main, have used
two weapons in their struggle
for human dignity and freedom-
Violence and Non-Violence.
From the club of the cavemen to
the use of the Atom bomb we
have relied too -heavily upon
violence. Wise and noble souls
have seen the useless futility of
Violencof Jesus has been the
greatest advocate LOVE OR
NON-VIOLENT means to achi
eve the goal of human freedom
and dignity.
' Gandhi, the little brown man,
has in our times in South Africa
and India proved the pracUcal
value of Non-Violent warfare in
the struggle for human decency
and justice. He used Religion
and applied spiritual truth in a
long struggle against deeply en
trenched evil. He put Religion
in action against evil. He
brought Love or Non-Violence
in the front line trenches to do
battle against evil, injustice and
insults. He put love in a pitched
battle against evil. In South Af
rica he won after twenty years.
It was a long hard battle but in
India he won after some forty
years. It works. Love overcame
evil. This SPIRITUAL GIANT
used this weapon of SOUL
FORCE to humble a proud but
' Violent Enipire and give free
dom and dignity to more than
three hundred million people.
It works!
He demonstrated that Love-
Non Violence-Truth-Soul Force
can overcome deeply entrench
ed evil. Love was crowded with
a glorious victory after a long,
hard struggle.
Thank God, we see the dawn
of a new era in the Church and
its leadership. Ministers and
people are engaged in using
Love-Non-Violence as a weapon
to maintain the dignity of their
own souls and heal the souT* of
the nation. Can we, ten million
strong, make use of this wea
pon? Our whole past has pre
pared and conditioned us for the
use of this SPIRITUAL WEA
PON. Its power and soul beau
ty was revealed in the Spirituals
which sprang forth from our
souls in a cruel and a violent
atmosphere. Jesus proved its
wisdom and power. And we can
use it to reclaim the souls of
forty million people in the
South—Our own souls and the
souls of our brothers-for the
Kingdom of God...“Overcome
Evil With God..”
Capital Close Up
D. C. Peels Political Onion
GOP Old Guard Challenged
With the first real voting in
the District of Columbia in 82
years, only weeks away. Old
Guard GOP-ers, here, rubbed
their smarting eyes, last week,
as a local Republican liberals
rallied beiiind George P. Lamb-
long-time resident, but political
unknown-as he busily peeled
the skin from a potent political
onion-Old Guard machine con
trol in the District.
Shattering the loud silence
that followed annoimcement of
the this-is-all-Republican slate
for Dee Cee’s Rip Van Winkle
Primary on May 1, Lamb, an
anti-trust lawyer, declared his
candidacy for the National Com
mitteeman post held by Clyde
G. Garrett, Old Guard incum
bent backed by the machine
off cruising in the Mediterran
ean when the onion was cut.
Newcomer Tackles Integration
The political newcomer, an
Eisenhower Republican, and a
Catholic who grew up in the
midst of Klan violence in Indi
ana, cut deep into the onion
when he took a stand on the
BY CONSTANCE DANIBL
two hottest issues in the Na
tion’s Capital—full racial inte
gration and Home Rule—and
challenged Republican State
Chairman George L. Hart, Jr.,
to debate both. Hart ducked the
challenge and came back with
the stock answers; Where do
you “get off’? How much
money have you given to the
GOP? And didn’t you once
vote for a Democrat?
Like another Indianan, Wen
dell Wilkie, former Democrat,
utility lawyer and GOP 1940
standard-bearer, Lamb’s forth
right stand has attracted an im
pressive cross-section of sup
port—racial, religious and eco
nomic. His headquarter’s re
ports that more questions on in
tegration than on any other sub
ject are directed to the challen
ger, who six get-out-and-regis-
ter telephones facing his head
quarters door, are interraelally
manned. He could well say,
quoting the late, great Wlllkie,
“I decided that on at least two
points I might help to arouse
and make articulate a body of
public opinion that would de
mand cfear statements of pur
pose.”
Backers Release “Declaration of
Purpose’’
Lamb backers who, last week,
released a Declaration of Pur
pose supporting his candidacy,
included Robert Grayson Mc
Guire, businessman, the Rev.
Jerry Moore, pastor of Nine
teenth St. Baptist Church, Mrs.
Minnie Connor, civic leader,
Leon Calhoim, “Mayor” oi
Southwest Washmgton, Attor
neys Henry Lincoln Johnson
and Thurman Dodson, Louis H.
Fisher and Herbert Williams,
businessmen, columnist Con
stance Daniel, and others. The
Lamb slate, which names Mr.
Calhoun, realtor and civic lea
der, and Attorney Thurman
Dodson as Delegates to the Cali
fornia Convention, opposes the
“Machine” slate which names
one Negro Delegate—^Harty E.
Polk, director of the Jim-Crow
Police Boys' Club. Alternate
Delegates named on the Lamb
slate are the Rev. Jerry A.
Moore, Jr. and Barrington Par
ker, attorney—the latter endor
sed from the Old Guard slate.
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