I THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, DEC. 4, IMS
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All-White Delegations for Race Problems
Try as we may we are unable to
muster any justification, other than
prejudice, for the action of the all
white North Carolina delegation in
appearing before an advisory panel
to the House Judiciary Committee
last Monday to protest the 1965 Vot
ing Rights Act. About the best that
can be said of the changes the dele
gation proposed in the law is that
they are about as stupid as ever have
been concocted by a group of officials
from any state.
In addition to Alvin K. Brock, ex
ecutive secretary of the North Caro
lina Board of Elections, who present
ed the proposals, there was in the dele
gation the state's perennial and chief
opponent of civil rights, Assistant At
torney-General Ralph Moody. Mr.
Moody has proved through the years
that he stands ready and willing at
al times to throw his support against
any legislation or movement that
means the advancement of the Negro.
On occasions his past performances
before, the federal courts, committees,
etc., must have often appeared ridicu
lous if not embarrassing to all intel
ligent state officials and citizens.
Had the delegation been on solid
ground and with no ulterior motives
in mind, at least one representative
Negro citizen of the state would have
been included in the delegation, since
every one of the proposals con
cerned the million or more Negro
citizens. Instead, it appears that with
out the consultation or advice of one
responsible Negro leader of the state,
the delegation made its appearance
before the advisory panel to the House
Judiciary Committee. This ante-bel
lum pattern of paternalism in interra
cial matters does nothing to improve
race relations here in North Carolina!
On the contrary it raises, again and
again, the suspicion that high state
officials do not intend to play fair or
include Negro leaders in the equation
when it comes to the matter of inte
gration etc.
One of the proposals presented by
the N. C. delegation asks the removal
A N. C. Negro Candidate for Congress
The announcement this week that
a Negro housewife will be a candidate
for Congress from the First Congres
sional District of North Carolina
should do much to arouse Negro vot
ing interest, not only in Martin County
where she resides, but throughout the
entire state. Too long Negro citizens
have been dragging their feet on the
matter of seeking public office in
North Carolina, from That of governor
on down to township constable.
Although Negro citizens of the dis
trict in which Mrs. Small is running
for Congress will have only one regis
tration day to increase their voting
strength in support of the candidate of
their race, they will at least be made
to realize that they are without hope
so long as they don't vote. The Gen
eral Election in 1966, when a full reg
istration period will give ample time
for any member of the race who de
sires to register to do so, should re
sult in a decided increase in the vot
ing strength of Negroes in the First
| flhjp YOB SWHIM bwr
PJGENE CHEN
IN TRINIDAD / 8.W.1. OF
NEGRO, CHINESE AND SPANISH PARENTAGE;
EDUCATED FOR LAW IN ENGLAND, HE BECAME
j LEGAL ADVISOR 70 THE MINISTRY OF COM
MUNICATIONS AT PEKING IN J912! IN 1914 HE
FOUNDED AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST NEWS PAP
ER, AND IN 1917, BECAME PERSONAL ADVISOR
AND PRIVATE SECRETARY TO DR.SUN YAT
SEN, FOUNDER OF NATIONALIST GHINA!-
HIS CLEVER STRATEGIES FORCED FOREIGN
EXPLOITERS TO YIELD ON TOO MANY
POINTB TO MENTION !
of what it refers to as the "constant
and careless reference to federal reg
istrars being sent to our state." Said
the proposal further: "\V e can and are
handling our own election system
properly and efficiently, in compliance
with the law. We are not children
who'need to be threatened in order
to obey."
It is amazing just how self-righteous
certain state officials of North Car
olina can become once they realize
federal authorities are breathing down
their necks. If Mr. Brock and Mr.
Moody are unaware of the vicious
methods registration and election of
ficials of eastern North Carolina have
continuously resorted to in preventing
Negroes from registering and voting,
they are too unintelligent to be
shouldered with the responsibilities of
the offices they now hold as state of
ficials. If they are not what
is going on in general in North Car
olina they.'are compelled to know
about the brazen denial of the rights
of Negroes to register and vote in
Mississippi. Alabama, Louisiana and
other southern states. Both Mr. Brock
and Mr. Moody must know that even
when Negroes are registered by fed
eral officials they are often subjected
to the most cruel and inhumane re
prisals by white citizens who resent
a Negro exercising the basic citizen
ship rights which are to register and
vote.
Like the rain that is sent on the.
just and the unjust, like the Ten Com*
mandments that are for both the saint
and the sinner the Voting Rights Act
exists for the good and the bad. If
North Carolina intends to obey the
law we see no reason why its officials
are so disturbed about any of its con
tents. The appearance of the delega
tion before the advisory panel of the
House Judiciary Committee raises
grave suspicion that there is a dead
cat up the line somewhere in this
state and that it is in the 26 counties
of eastern North Carolina where Ne
groes have been intimidated and are
often denied by subtle and sundry
means the right to register.
District as a result of Mrs. Small's
candidacy.
Win or lose Mrs. Small's bid for a
seat in Congress is certain to make
a distinct contribution to the political
interest of all Negro citizens of North
Carolina. It should also shame Negro
leaders of the entire state and cause
them to realize that they have been
derelict in their duty of promoting the
interest of the Negro masses in regis
tering and voting.
Sooner or later a Negro is certain
to win a seat in Congress from North
Carolina and it is certain that the First
and Second Congressional District,
where Negroes are on a par if not
outnumbering white citizens, are at
present the districts in which success
is most likely. It is our hope that Ne
gro leaders in the First Congressional
District will take Mrs. Small's candi
dacy seriously and get out support for
her both from a standpoint of supply
ing the votes and money she will need
for a successful campaign.
WE MUST CONTINUE TO PREPARE ... AS WE PROTEST
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INCREASE THEIR OWN EFFICIENCY AND PROFITS,
SPIRITUAL INSIGHT
KI Man Can be Made Acceptable By
■ The Redeeming Love of the Cross
"ThoW who ar4 in Hi* flash
cannot pla«M God."
—Rom. 1:1
Man, in his natural state, is
unable to please God. Human
nature being what it is—weak,
very weak—man is unable in
his fleshly or natural condi
tion to please God. This stub
born fact of man's experience
stands out from the beginning
in Eden to this present mo
ment. Then what is man to do
to achieve that state in which
he can be pleasing and accept
able before God? Man must be
subjected to an enabling act
on the part of the Almighty
God. And this enabling act of
God has found expression in
the saving power of Jesus and
the gracious gift of the Holy
Spirit.
Man regenerated in Christ
can be pleasing to the God of
love and holiness. The secret
is found in Christ and his crosT
In that gracious act of redeem
ing love of the cross man can
be made acceptable to God.
But man in the flesh is unable
-Clement
(Continued from front page)
ton, South Carolina, is a trustee
of White Rock Baptist Church,
a member of the executive
committee of the Durham Com
mittee on Negro Affairs, a
Shriner, and a member of the
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He
was awarded the Chartered
Life Underwriters designation
by the American College of
Life Underwriters in 1953.
--Registers
(Continued from front page)
istering daily, she stated. A
total of 1,613 Negroes has b€en"
registered in the county/^
In Jefferson County, (where
Negroes outnumber whites by
three to one, 1,569 Negroes,
about half of their voting po
tential, have registered.
Miss Simmons, who headed
the highly successful NAACP
summer voting registration
project, returned to the Jack
son office following complaints
that registration in Hinds Coun
ty, in which Jackson and Ray
mond are located, was lagging,
despite the presence of Fed
eral registrars.
-Congress
(Continued from front page)
Mrs. Small has done exten
sive work in registration and
voting campaigns and stated
she is running as a representa
tive of "all the poor people"
of the first district.
With Golden Frinks, well
known and ardent civil rights
worker of Edenton, Mrs. Small
is expected to make a decisive
bid for the congressional seat
she seeks.
Her filing fee was paid by
CORE and the Southern Christ
1a n Leadership Conference.
She declared, however, that
she is a candidate of all the
people.
By REV. HAROLD ROLAND
to please God. Man, washed,
purged, cleansed and purified,
through the Grace of God re
vealed in Jesus Christ is made
acceptable before God. A God
of love and forgiveness as re
vealed in Jesus can avail to
make us acceptable before God.
Tn Christ -we are forgiven. In
Christ the burden of guilt and
sin is lifted and we are made
acceptable before God. The
loving touch of the Christ of
the Cross transforms, changes
that old nature so we are
made accepatble before God.
Secondly, the Holy Spirit
makes us acceptable in the
presence of the High and the
Holy One. In that inner spirit
ual operation in the sinful hu
man soul we are made accept
able before God. In this spirit
ual operation we are emptied,
through faith and repentance,
of all that Is unacceptable be
fore God. We are not left emp
ty—we are filled with the Holy
Spirit. And the spirit with its
work of sanctification makes
man acceptable to God.
-Nurses
(Continued from front page)
employees forced to eat in a
converted classroom, while the
white employees used a new
cafeteria. - ,
"In order to dine in this
room (classroom) Negro em
ployees had to telephone their
orders for food service to the
cafeteria and wait until the
food was delivered.
"This procedure resulted in
cold food and delays which ex
hausted the 30-minute lunch
period."
Nurse Smith explained that
the classroom seated 35 per
sons, but because there are
muSv eat there, the room is
fretptantly crowded and per
sons imist wait their turn for
available chairs.
Dropouts Urged
To Enroll in
Natl Job Corps
Unemployed high school
dropouts in the Durham area
between the ages of 16 and 21,
who come from very low in
come families, were urged this
week by Operation Break
through to consider enroll
ment in the national Job Corp*.
According to W. R. Puriell,
head of Operation Break
through's Neighborhood Youth
Corps, his department has been
asked by the national Office of
Economic Opporunity (OEO) to
resume recruitment for the Job
Corps program.
The OEO' requests seeks 32
new Job Corps enrolles from
the Durham area by Jan. 1 and
210 by June 30, 1966, Puriell
said. He noted that this depart
ment has placed 23 Durham
area youths in Job Corps camps
throughout the country since
last May.
Then let us, therefore, thank
God for the gift of His Holy
Spirit. The gift of the spirit
is an important part of the
Divine enabling act. The natu
ral man is unable to please
God. But with the Spirit work
ing in man's sinful soul he ia
made fit for Holy society.
We can now please the Al
mighty God. Now, thank God,
we have no excuse to hide be
hind. Man with the loving and
redeeming touch of the Christ
of the Cross is fit for fellow
ship with a God of righteous
ness. Now we can live and
grow in the beauty of Holiness.
Now we may have the peace
that passeth all human under
standing. Now we are fit for
the rare joys of Divine fellow
ship. Now we are fit to enjoy
the spiritual riches of heavenly
or Celestial bliss.
In Christ, God' 3 Son, we are
freed from our sinfulness and
made worthy of Communion
with God, with its spiritual
peace.
-Mrs. Cobb
(Continued from front page)
and Mrs. Mary C. Morrison of
Washington. Another son, the
Rev. Chas. E. Cobb resides and
pastors in Springfield, Mass.
Interment was at Beechwood
Cemetery.
The Job Corps enrolls young
men for a minimum of six
months and not more than two
years of training at its train
ing centers. At these centers
industrial vocational training,
useful work, recreation, and
physical training are provided
to increase employability of
each young'person. The pro
gram is designed to help young
men who could benefit by in
tensive "away from home"
training.
While receiving room, board,
medical care, and S3O per
month spending money, Job
Corps members attend basic
education classes, as well as
classes in such fields as auto
mobile repair, carpentry, ma
chinery operation and mainte
nance. At the end of his train
ing each youth receives a ter
minal payment of SSO for
each month he has spent in the
Corps. Furthermore, he may
elect to send up to one-half of
his monthly spending money
home, and the Job Corps will
match this allotment with an
equal amount.
Young men interested In ap
plying for this program may
report to the fourth floor of
Operation Breakthrough's head
quarters at 114 W. Parrish St.
Gets Negro Cop
CLARKSDALE, Miss.
This southern city has lust hired
Jesse "Wright as its first Negro po
liceman.
The action of the City Board last
week followed » atepptag-op civil
rights campaign in the north Mis
sissippi community, which asked in
addition better Job opportunities
and use of courtesy titles in ad
dressing Negroes.
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To Be Equal
By WHITNEY M. YOUNG JB.
White Status Symbol
DRL KENNETH B. Clark, distinguished professor of pay.
chology at the City College of New York, and Edwin
C. Berry, executive director of the Chicago Urban
League, unleashed some verbal bombshells several weeks
ago before a nationwide conference on "A Thousand Hsur
lems—How To Break Up The Racial Ghetta."
As one of the speakers at the meeting sponsored by the
Nauonal Committee Against Racial Discrimination In Hous
in the Windy City, Dr. Clark called the Ne
gro ghetto a form of status symbol for whi/te | jgM
paople.
"The Negro ghetto helps the whites take f ,~-%l
their minds off their own problems," the
noted author and educator 9aid. "They talk
about those terrible illegitimate kids In
Central City, and forget about the abortions
in their own 'gilded ghetto!' '•
The Negro ghetto. In his opinion, Is best
characterized as "an Involuntary prison-like
confinement that destroys and dehumanizes
powerless people." MR. YOUNG
These ghettoes are not accidental, according to Clark,
but planned and maintained by governmental power. And
he accused Negro politicians of participating in a conspiracy
along with their white counterparts to exploit the ghetto eco
nomically.
Early 'Badges Of Inferiority'
Moreover, he indicated administrators of ghetto schools
who pin "badges of inferiority" on Negro children early is
the elementary grades.
"The school people make sure that very few of their
prisoners escape the school unscathed," he said.
Clark, who wrote the widely acclaimed book "Dark
Ghetto," indicated that Negroes should not depend on labor
unions to offer help in eliminating housing segregation.
"When its gets down to the basics," he asserted, "most
unions are as reactionary on the housing issue as the NAM
(National Association of Manufacturers)."
In conclusion, he described CTiioago as one of the moat
segregated cities In America, and its political leaders as only
giving "lip service" to Integration.
Berry, a top League executve, also unburdened himself
of some pungent comments on the Negro's social predica
ment.
"Chicago has a "DonAte Ghetto'," he explained. "One of
race and one of poverty—in a seven-mile stretch of pubils
housing on the South Side. It's a classic example of how not
to build public housing."
"There are kids there who actually believe Negroes art
the majority race," he pointed out, "because they never get
far enough away to see any whites."
'Locked' In Neighborhoods
He contended that persons "locked" in all-white neigh
borhoods face a similar problem because their children grow
up without knowledge what the world really looks like.
Summing up, Berry said all human activities from
picketing to prayer—should me aimed at breaking up Ne
gro ghettos.
It would appear that by now Intelligent people acting
in their own enlightened self interest would want, to take
Immediate massive steps to eliminate the ghetto.
Existence of the greetto has serious economic and politi
cal consequences. And unless non-white citizens «re dis
persed throughout our cities, then white youngsters win
have the unfortunate experience of growing up without any
association with two-thirds of the world's population. Secure,
Gsture, Intelligent and sophisticated people do not need this
nd of sterile sameness. The new status symbol will be
diversity and lnclusiveness.
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