The Omaha guide., 1945-12-29

he was ony a hated monstrOus legend. Freedom of
the press, freedom of speech, movement and the
granting OF universal suffrage to all Japanese, in
Guiding women, are startling steps to the bewilder-
ed Sons OF the Rising Sun who never had any of
these things before and consequently didn't know
what they are and, In fact, never thought about
them, SO bowed down were they under exploitation
and the burdens that are laid on the backs Of the
little people the world over by bureaucracy and i'm
perialism.
All these things give rise to the idea Of j MacAr-
thur doing for the American Negro still slavery in
the South what is being done for the Japanese. The
American Negro has never warred on this country,
except III instances OF rebellion such at Nat Turner's
msu1rectlon, and other uprisings of the slaves beat
en- down to the ground by the burden Of the white
mans chains.
Although Lincoln freed the slaves, his work in
this connection has been nullified almost completely
by the whites who got into the saddle after Honest
Abe's assassination. American Negroes gave their
blood that Macarthur might get to Tokyo to do for
the japanese, our defeated enemies what the Am
er1can Negroes own homeland refuses to do.
The Japanese can not vote, thanks to the combin-
ed efforts of Negro and white fighting units who
chased the Japs from Manila, from Guadalcanal,
Bougainville, Leyte and back into the home islands.
The Japanese has equality where he didn't have it
before, thanks to Macarthur who ought to thank
every American Negro he meets that there were
such persons around could drive trucks through
mud and m1re, up and down mountains; tear up
r~oadways through dense jungle, withstand the ter
rifle tropical heat and diseases, who sang a song as
they marched. many of them to their doom.
Yes, the Japanese, who went down to defeat I'M
der the atom bomb and under naval blockading, in
addition to the sterling performances Of Negro ard
White lighting men, are now in a position to get the
things the Negroes who helped defeat them will not
get In another 100 years unless some sort of a mai
or spiritual and social turnabout takes place in the
heart OF the white man in the South.
In another quarter Of a century, providing there
is no major war going on! Japan will be back on it's
feet.
The Japanese will enshrine Macarthur as the sym
Dol of liberty, freedom and democracy.
In another quarter of a century more Negroes
will be lynched by berserk, bloodthirsty white hood
lums on the streets of Mississippi's proudest cities,
IN Texas, in the bayous Of Louisiana, in Florida.
Arkansas. Tennessee, South Carolina, in any of the
states below the Mason-DiXon Line that do not IN
tend to be decent to a minority group 50 long as the
federal government ~tolerates these violations Of the
Constitution which grants theoretically to every
man, life, liberty and the pursuit Of happiness"
"A Macarthur is needed in Washington who won't
see color as he moves about putting our national
house In order. A Macarthur is needed in the
South who will see that all men are the same. des-
plte color; that they all eat, all sleep, all dream,
all have desires, all have in common the desire to
1--we and multiply peacefully.