The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
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pass on 10 you. my readers, a
very interesting and illuminating
letter received from a reader of
this column who is at present visit
ing a sick father in the south.
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My dear MIR. Sheriff.:
No doubt you already are aware
that l am here attending the illness
OF my dad. who, incidentally, is not
improving in the least.
/ am writing you particularly be-
cause OF our mutual interest in the
diversified phases OF strategy 10 be
used in removing present discrim-
ination based on race and color. II
has been my pleasure 10 have at
tended lecture at the University
OF Missouri: where was surely not
welcome: but. where | used 10 an
advantage my lack OF conspicuous
racial designant to quietly take a
seat and absorb some OF the talk
about Postwar Adjustment in the
Measure OF lnter-racial Relation
ships in the U. S." A very imposing
title and most interesting dis
course.
was very impressed when the
speaker read repeatedly from ar
ticles written by Mr. Csyton. a
columnist OF the Pittsburgh Courier.
One OF the most significant state
ments made was. and | quote in
exsctness, The Negro will not re-
act TO a policy of waiting until the
war is over. and any attempt of
whites TO becloud the issue OF de-
fined application OF Democracy
under guise OF interfering with the
war effort will be met with an in
telligent counter policy OF fragrant
and ignorant practices OF white:
held out in ridicule and at odd.
with the New World Policy o.
| equality"
boiled down the general them,
TO a few words and can state Il
you that the speaker was attempt
ing to say to group OF student.
largely radical-liberal as most stu.
dents are) and generous audience
Of weakly cultural. non-intelligent
localities, all white. who think that
! racial discrimination must be pre-.
served to guarantee the purity and
seignor principles and practices SO
long INDUCED in at our expense
and unknowingly OF theirs as well;
that they have to make some
changes.
gather from this talk that even
here where white is unequivocally
right that the Negro question is
becoming highly embarrassing and
very annoying. The speaker quoted
a u. S. Court case-U. S. VS.. Ark,
Chinese, He said that this case
even at this late date was rebound
ing 10 the advantage OF all oppressed
groups in the u. S. He spoke of
the artificial and highly elastic legal
behavior OF the Southern white and
stated what to me was OF great inn
portance, that this election year,
from this moment up to the meeting
at the party conventions must be
used to press hard against bi-racial-
ism in all its forms il succeeding
years are to bring equitable adjust
ments. He stated that Separation
and bi-racial practices and facilities
intensified race friction and created
new means for practicing discrim-
ina,ion. He called lynching a saw
age sport" and said its reaction
was cancerous to the life OF every
white. in America. He concluded
by saying that il the states did not
react to the necessity OF a speedy
abolition of discriminatory prac-
tices that the new philosopher Al
revolution would impose such aboli-
ton upon the Federal Government
as a necessity for the preservation
OF Democratic society.
Twas highly illuminating and I.