Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-22

around the land busy making
speeches about the Zionist Move
ment and it's advantages to the
Jewish people; discussing the role
of China in the postwar world;
taking sides with the Irish RepubE-
can Army; casting their lot with
the Communists; joining a million
and a half churches, all different,
trying to pass" mentally for some
thing they are not when our prob
lem lies in every mirror We look
into.
Discipline Badly Needed
No. on the Negroes backyard"
agenda should be the spread of
some sort of training that makes
for discipline among our adde's
cents with plenty thrown in for the
adults. Some kind of program
should be devised to educate the
great masses against harmful vices
that are picked up wholesale from
decadent white civilization which
offer no return, either financially OF
in health. The sound things of life
should be talked about and ex-
amined-such acts as buying ones
own home, saving money that is
being recklessly thrown away at a
time when it comes easy, for
whiskey, idle pleasures, and fanci-
full whims.
A practical code of morals should
be taught everybody, particularly
on the score of the racially harm
full practice of disregarding the in
stitution of marriage and putting
male and female relationships on a
basis of free love" or so-called
common law" marriages. In this
way, children can have parental
respect and hope in the future
based on the protection of family
hearth built on firm foundations.
AS it is, countless thousands of
Negro children are being brought
into the world through common
law" marriages and free love" re-
lationships who will start out in life
with two strikes already called up
on them because of their hazy par
entail background.
Over-sensitiveness Bad
No. 2 on the program should be
education against the severe case
of over-sensitiveness with which,
it seems, the entire race is acutely
suffering.
We cannot go far if our people,
regardless of what has happened to
them in the South at the hands of
white people, go through life with
the racial chip on their shoulders.
Too many outbursts of violence
between the races are coming about
today because agitation among the
masses has dangerously incensed
people to hate all white faces and
to disregard good manners, COM
mon decency and even to violate
the law to make white people un-
comfortable.
The sooner Negroes are taught
that this is their native land and
that it holds as much promise for
them as for anybody else, the bet
ter off we will be. Then we may
see an end to the sordid examples
of over-sensitiveness on the race
question that has the entire nation
sitting on a powder keg.
Understanding in Dixie
No. on the agenda should be the
actual graphing with the truth
THAT THE NEGRO'S MOST
NECESSARY MOVE IN INTER
RACIAL RELATIONSHIPS is TO
GET AN UNDERSTANDING
WITH THE SOUTHERN WHITE
MAN. Too long has this needed I'M
Outstanding been avoided. Propa-
ganda, pro and con, contempt, ha-
tired constantly famed by both
those who are sincere and those who
operate for a point, have played a
tremendous role in wedging apart
the Negro and the Southern white
man. The Negro Problem is mostly
in the South. The white man rules
the South. The issue is plain. Both
Negro and Southern white man
know each other better than whites
and Negroes from other sections of
the land. But the Negro and the