Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-08-19
The Negro and Law Enforcement
In Mississippi

In 1857 when Mr. Chief Justice fancy reached the
conclusion that Negro inferior that ne could have
no rights that white bound to respect, in
derng the bred Scott decision though the slavery
crisis at its height and though it was to be nearly
seven years before emancipation and even after enamel
patton when the Civil War had burned deep its rancor INTO
the very blood of the SOUTH the conclusion reached
the bred Scott decision did such violence to the ordinary
principals and concepts OF humanity ana human relIos
and the high principals and concepts of the Decara
ton of Independence the Constitution the Bill OF Rights
and the democratic ideal that everywhere rejected
by honorable and nowhere this true to greater
than in the South and through further embttered
by the of Carpet Baggery the South emerged
from the reconstruction period exhibiting desires to
adopt the conclusion reached by Mr. Justice fancy in
dealing with the Negro More than anything else
the refusal of the South to adopt this conclusion
though the Negro at that time in almost helpless
condition that made possible the unprecedented progress
that the Negro has made since emancipation
progress that has been in small contribution to
the progress and development of the whole south
Under the stress and strain of the present world
and hN appreciation of the principle of world wide de-
mocracy even though than seventyfve years
from emancipation reconstruction and carpebaggery the
nation and the south is about to again reach crisis over
the Negro question In the of politics of sincere
convicton well those who fly at opportunity
for self advancement how desperate the chance are re-
sorting extremes of discussion and remarks which
be creating in the masses the people, the less intel
gent the type of passions that observed by General
Robert E Lee his first trip to Richmond at the be-
ginning of secession receive the appointment of the
and the convention to command the forces OF
Virginia.
Observing the manifestation of these passions which
evidence OF increase IN deptn ana
the attitude the Masses the less intelligent gives Ne
everywhere good to be apprehensve both
to the present and the future it that the Ne
gro everywhere but particularly in the South is about
all but lose of the four most important and basic
principals for which the present is being fought
which is Freedom from Fear
In Mississippi where the Negro and the Negro ques-
ton has long been instrument of politics, the new
emphasis with which the instrument is being played
is producing passions and attitudes among the masses
which already have reached the point where the real at
tude of the real leaders, and not the political attitude of
the politicians be brought forward and made public
less the political attitudes already overpayed, being al
lowed contino unopposed create conditions which will
adversely affect the and development of the state
for many years
In no ways Negroes in Mississippi being more af
cted than by the evidence of recent and current events
the concerning their right to life liberty and the
pursuit of happiness where there appears to be al
complete breakdown of the law and law enforcement
machinery
What the Negro needs most in Mississippi at this
time the that he is not being regarded
in the spirit of the bred Scott decision