St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-23
The Riots
letter to "The New York

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Los Angeles Mobile Beaumont and Detroit within period of thirty
days We doubt that Axis agents. such planned organized and
followed the Axis line.
The there belief the
great of people, of social POLITICAL and bust
life Negro permitted citizen
equality with other citizens in the privileges
btes of American democracy There who believe differently
but although their number has they still constitute ineffective
minority.
buttressed with all manner of material
disseminated through available channel The result has been
deeply Negro person apart
that he does not deserve must not the treatment
Americans.
So, when he himself inevitably (beng nothing
less than American reared the American rado
breaks violently through the
becomes ntoerable, we have riots, BETTER
These riots would
the vast majority OF the population including often
not the law enforcement officers and machinery varying
degrees the belief that Negroes
stranger unacquated with be puzzled
by casual reading of the accounts of the Detroit
fourhs Negroes shot by police Not single white
shot by police More than
iotng Negroes people chasing
kicking beating coored people There were manv nbc and
horrible pictures of the riot but the meangu
this the showing Negro being
white roter he being escorted by policemen
Governor Kelly calling federal troops to quiet
the giant factory town. announced that the nsgaors
would be sought and brought Kelly just talk
ing Neither he the State of Michigan appreend
nsgao of the shameful disastrous orgy 1922 when
7 Negroes and Whitley people and
that laid the finder lighted story
and fight near the bloody tearassed
streets of the Michigan city during the massacre.
What made the riot possible? up the idea
that at times is all right for hundred beat
lng ngge wrong, sport? dragging innocent
people from troeys buses and beating them
bloody pulp with Bricks bottles iron pipes and clubs perfectly
order? That burning of whole the
ground" Ito description Beaumon crime but service
humanity? Who plants seed which bring towering?
The daily Of which carry holy
toas inside and cruelty Negroes headline
black brutes, "fends e rapists" uggers" "gorlas"
textbooks schools where the babes pgas
pants ndoctnated with the poison Negroes shfts
cotton field workers who have contributed single
thing to America but brought Tragic during which
some Of them held office took graft chewed tobacco split the
English language wide
The industrial magnae turned their backs on Negroes
seeking jobs above the ndpa levn Detroit specifically Cen
era Motors Chryser Packard Murray Briggs Keseayes the
rest, all except Ford
The public utilities which generally that gas meter
reader and electrician telephone operator trolley moman or
bus driver had to be white
Our commercial houses which thought of Negro
clerk, bookkeeper, typist
The banks building loan associations and finance
with their hard bargain, highnterestrate ghettos
their cabins and homemade" bookkeeDnp
the rural South and their zonng restrictions
North
The scholars and pubcists with their sboddv statistics their
pseudosclenc their learned lectures and their published
The novess like Margaret Mitchell fconzng history as suits
their prejudces
Cona Sarneses ct al (as democracy shoud)
las no democracy shoud all matters affecting Negroes
The fabulous films spreading sereotyps
ated to freeze status for Negroes
Millions of people.
The radio, spreading like the films, conception status
The dual school system the South where
country are separated not united and where little
ninth as much money spent on them the whites.
These the people institutions the riots Thew
me atospheres which made the Detroit mosters sac
as they welded their lead bdgeons was to stop
hem Not the police who has always been system
NOT the powerful rulers OF Detroit whose
There will be Investigations recommendations Some
pechc and palliative corrections instituted But
ne Big basic problem has been stated Buck Until America
ecides whether the Negro to or not erupns will
axe place. For unless told otherwise theory
completely discarded the Negro continue to resent and resist
oscpon basng his actions and the federal
avs The determination of the methods the Negroes
tan their goal is second STEP The decide thew
must have full and complete equality Negro not it should he
oteo the Negro OF 1865 yet Negro formulate in
vogue IN those times simply will situation in 1919 and
the people who try to impose them time and %
precpitate Beaumonts and worseupon the
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