Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-07-14
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norance, bigotry and proscriptian.
AS a result of this the spirit OF
many men particularly Negroes has
| been dampened and in some III
stances almost wholly crushed.
EXTENDS TO NATIVES
1.-THE periIous effect OF such
manifestations Of race prejudice
Mr.. White pointed out further. "ex-
tends beyond American Negroes to
the natives whose aid we need now
in winning the war and whose
friendship we will need after the
war If we are to have peace"
On the brighter side White re-
viewed the performance OF the
93rd Division commended by Gen
eral Dunckel of the American d.
vision: the role of Negro CTS in
the construction of roads, airfields
on Guam and Saipan, together With
their handling of thousands of tons
of supplies close on the heels of in
vasion troops.
Realization, according to Mr..
| White, has come to many white
men in the Army, Navy, Coast
Guard and Marine corps, that the
problem of race is neither Sec
tional nor a national one in the
! United States, but an increasingly
| important WORLD problem.
CAN'T BE SAME AGAIN
! Men cannot be quite the same
again." he declared, sin their opin-
ions of each other when they have
seen their comrades die for an ideal
commonly held. Race or religious
prejudice is seldom present in a
| fox-hole."
ut is tragic that 1t took a war
costing millions of lives and billions
of dollars to teach us this lesson
But some of us are awake to the
fact that to date in this war
| 1870, 900 human beings have died for
each of the 991 pages Of Hitler's
hymn of hate, MEM KAMPF; that
900 men, women and children have
died for every word in that infam-
Gus volume"
Hope for a better future based
on a n W attitude as exemplifled
| in the case of returning Negro
veterans whose white comrades
stood ready to 'break up the joint"
when they were refused food in a
Washington department store was
seen by White. In this situation
MP's summoned to he scene (and
| themselves world war veterans)
said: "If these men who have
| fought overseas, seen their buddies
die, themselves wounded, want to
eat together, we don't have damn
thing to with it."
MAKES PROPHECY
Mr.. White concluded prophetical-
ly, The ten years after the war is
finally over, will unquestionably
/ be the most critical In all human
history. We will have to demon
strate then whether we are in ear
nest in pledging at San Francisco
that there shall be no discrimina-
ton on account of "race, religion,
language or SEX" If the example OF
the veterans in the Washington
department store characterizes our
postwar racial attitude at home
! and abroad, then there is hope Of
lasting peace If. however, the ma
jority of the people of the world
who are colored see in the United
States are crudesence Of organiza-
lions like the Ku-Klux Khan, Of
| riots, of lynchings and of racial
prescription, then their faith In
| us will be reduced and their fear
of us will grow to the point of
explosion. We cannot AFFORD the
dangerous fatalism ca accepting the
inevitability of post war riots. We
cannot afford to let 100000 Negro
Americans now overseas return to
find that the freedom for which
they fought is not shared by them.
Many of them have reason to fear
just that. A few days ago a Negro
soldier in the China-Burma India
theater wrote me that the soldiers
of white regiment near his own