Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-08
Senator B;lbo Presents Mississippi And The
South A Question

fore "A
greater pare winch devoted discussion or the
race question: may go history one OF tine
speeches uenyered by responsible Office
OF government curing World War H. 10 those VINO
believe IN the occult supernatural the fact that while
the spoke the earth around became darkened as
if threatened by great storm, and that the hghtnngs
from the and struck and for moment ST.
fenced the radio the nstrumentaty by which his speech
being carried 10 other thousands in Mississippi, ana
perhaps millions other parts the United States and
throughout the world might have added to the dire fore
bodings and sinister implications of the speech
master of the technique and oratorcal skill of direct
ing appeals prejudice bgotry ignorance and hate th
speech may we'll have been the greatest demonstration
the use OF such sklls that he made during
of 40 years in Mississippi politics IN which
he has successfully used them to get himself elected twice
to the governshp of the state and to the high office
the United States Senate technique and skill that ne
again calls into play with greater embellishments IN or
get himself returned to the Senate in the elections
next year. during which it has been already freely pre-
dicted that he will be faced with formidable opposition
It would not be necessary, however to have pro-
any belief in the occult supernatural though the
earth became darkened and the ighnings played about
the while the speech being made for those who
really love the state and it's people, and the southland and
who cherish both the hope of progressive prosperous
and happy future made possible and more abundant oy
unity of spirit and purpose, mutual respect confidence
goodwill and the cooperation of its Negro and white peo
ple find in the speech elements and Implications both
sinister and foreboding and destructive of such future
hope for Mississippi well for the southland And be-
the Speech for the first time in the OF most
persons living in the state and in the SOUTH today con-
moral ethical concept of the Christian philosophy in
support the racial theory advanced the question
appears whether Mississippi and the South shall plan
its future accordance with such doctrine in accor
dance with the doctrine Of Christ and Christianity.
Probably the greater portion of that part of the Sen
ators speech dealing with the question: devoted
to discussion of the danger and fear of mongrellzaon
should the Negro be allowed equal rights In MISSISSIPPI
the south 1t is we'll therefore for those who heard
the speech and all those who such danger and are
possessed by such fear to reexamne the history of the
state and of the SOUTH and that history with that
of Babylon, Egypt Greece Rome, and all other civiliza
tons the ages past before reaching definite convc
on as to what future course with reference the Ne
gro upon which lies the greater danger of mongrezaon
of the white in the south
Without pointing to the conclusions of the worlds
greatest scholars and authorities the subjects of Arch
eology anthropoogy ethnoogy egypology, philosophy
and history with which the speech dealt freely and
loosely, and accepting true the assertion that mon
grezaton caused the downfall of the Egyptians and has
rendered them progressively stagant for three thousand
years that mongrezaon brought about the downfall of
all the great civilizations and Kingdoms that have flour
shed and fallen before and after the fall of Egypt that
India, Latin America, and all the cOored people OF the
world the children and victims of mongrelzaon that
the Caucasian has remained and unmxed down
through all the centuries of time this truth and fact will
be at discovered by the most ordinary and casual
reader ard student That the people of the great cviza
tons and kingdoms of history they and FELL each
in the chronological order of their rise and fall became
the slaves of the successors that the long and bloody
that accompanied their rise fall left the manhood
of the vanqushed almost totally destroyed and those who
remained alive taken into captivity while the
anhOOd VanQuSned became SUBJECTS Wnlcn
mongrezation set in motion by the victors
ter
In every instance in known history mongrezation
has occurred only society civilization in which there
existed superior and inferior people 1t should therefore
be evident to interested in the question then
that the annual flow of than $4,000 Negroes into
the white in this country because of the slow but sure
process of mcnerei-ation going pointed out
by the Senator is due according to the facts of history
TO the existence in society of superior and IN
ferior people.
In autonomous eonintv sor;otv Of ao"als unde~
+hn roonn~nlia+;ons f'ina+na fn tho HE
of :; ;-a+;n biroccr1s hera rnfer~ed to
100 r. ~ ,-A' :" rA~r-r = ha-o c"""~rod ""
p 'o- ,,-,e- u h a. the oadarn histori
cal example
Here again point to the plainly evident fact that
the Negro is not seeking nter-marriage and social
equality" interpreted by baters and political spell
binders What he is seeking IS nothno less than
POLITICAL atonoy for the south well as fo~
the notion.
In asserting that the Negro soldiers row fighting for
freedom and will resort to violence and blood
shed break down the racial barriers of the south upon
their return and in calling for Jim Crow laws, what