St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-21
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what are the benefits of democracy
and why the system which Japan
has followed for a thousand years
is no good in modern times.
We know, of course, that what
Macarthur is doing is to make the
American white man great in the
Far East where the British, the
Dutch, the French and other species
of the white race have generated
hate and contempt on the part Of
native populations. By hitting hard
at the headline Japs and giving
what benefits that occur from such
a policy to the little fellow, Mac.
Arthur follows the policy first
ascribed to julius Caesar, "Divide
and Rule" However, this division
and governing process is making
friends for the American white
man where before he was only g
hated monstrous legend. Freedom
of the press, freedom of speech
movement and the granting of uni.
versal suffrage to all Japanese, in
Guiding women, are startling steps
to the bewildered Sons of the Ris-
ing 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 ex-
ploitation and the burdens that are
laid on the backs of the little people
the world over by bureaucracy and
imperialism.
All these things give rise to the
idea of a Macarthur doing for the
American Negro still in slavery in
the South what is being done for
the japanese. The American Ne
gro has never warred on this coun-
try, except in instances of rebellion
such as Nat Turner's instruction,
and other uprisings of the slaves
beaten 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 complete
ly by the whites who got into the
saddle after Honest Abe's assas-
sination. American Negroes gave
their blood that Macarthur might
get to Tokyo to do for the japanese,
our defeated enemies, what the
American Negroes own homeland
refuses to do.
The Japanese can now vote
thanks to the combined 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
who could drive trucks through
mud and mire, up and down noun
tains; tear our roadways through
dense jungle, withstand the ter
rifle tropical heat and diseases, who
sang song as they marched, many
of them to their doom.
Yes, the Japanese, who went
down to defeat under the atom
bomb and under naval blockading
in addition to the sterling per.
formances of Negro and white
fighting 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 major spiritual and social
turnabout takes place in the heart
Of the white man in the South.
In another quarter of century,
providing there is no major war
going on, Japan will be back on its
feet.
The Japanese will enshrine Mac
Arthur as the symbol 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 Caro-.
lima, in any of the states below the
Mason-Dixon Line that do not in,
tend to be decent to a minority
group so long as the federal govern,
ment tolerates these violations Of
the Constitution which grant.
theoretically to every man, 'life
liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness"
A Macarthur is needed in Wash.
ington who won't see color as hi
moves about putting our nationa
house in order. A Macarthur il
needed IN the South who will see
that all men are the same, despite
color; that they all act, all sleep,
all dream, all have desires, all have
in common the desire to live and
multiply peacefully.
Ell