Arkansas State press., 1946-08-30
EDITORIAL
THE FOUNDATION OF OUR BRAVE
NEW WORLD is HATRED
By John NJ. Lee

Are YOU Negro; Are you Jew; Are you human being
with blood eoursng through your veins? Whatever
you happen to be- you frightened? Well you should be-
for you living the brink of gigantic volcano that is
rubng and ready to out huge destructive rivers OF
molten human hate You and can hide but you
cannot evade awful naty of sudden and violent death
Perhaps you have been awed by the horrible efficiency
bomb control the end of the world but you
forgeman hatred conceived and birth to the atom
bomb and mans hatred produce greater terrors
Man has tired of the chids play OF simplifying and proon
ing life he exploring the powers of God he will not be
satisfied until the power of life and death is absolutely.
Whether be lonely wooded region in Georgia. or in
the melancholy mines of South Africa is in his lab
oratory, killing for the delight of killing seeking to know
the omnpoent thrill of making human heart stand still
permanently.
The agonzed crys of tortured Jews who dare defy the
newday Nazsm Haifa and TeAvv the echoes of the
black Americans who die without resisting and in lesser
numbers but who die nevertheless They beneath the
law these dead Negroes and Jews the law not created
for such they created for those who kill and
defile them, for those supermen above the law
There is law really There are rules and they 90 not
skim and kills his body the process account
able of the oaed decent forces that have been set
up in every community. mob is an anonymous thing,
identified, but easily recognizable yet when the mob
functions the law breaks down
Mobs sometimes the army in the in Palestine;
not thy WILL but my will be done OH Lord Thoroughly
disciplined superbly trained to obey mechanically without
reasoning the army easily be converted into the greatest
mob of all Arrogant strong minded men who desire to
boss the world direct the to MAIN, inure and to kill
in the name of a better world i'll which to live
Even the law of the commandment which says Thou
of the mob The great force of Christian believers who
chant posy and pray erventy for the life everlasting
properly aghast when the mob kills but they never
articuate They have surrendered to the negative
philosophy of the moral coward There Christian in
men in the British Army; there are Christian men in the
government of the United States, but they have neither
the power the WILL born of righteous anger to stop the
mob
You say frightened but do you really know?
You numbed by the chilling terror of reality. The inn
mnent effect of prolonged and growing hatred perhaps too
close to you for you to examine it effectively You think
Tho
dead of the night because you on the side of mob
either by omission commission that it only happen to
else but brother the country preacher used to
say ut is upon you"
Hatred destructive force that is not easily salts
fled is it respecter of persons 1t amuck and
finally destroys them that foster it, is in the august halls
where the peace being considered it about the halls
where the United Nations meet and deliberate it repre-
scented the United States Senate by the Keage of the Ku
Klux Kan from Mississippi, is in your neighborhood and
it will be in heart before the day is done 1t is the pass
word of the world order it the beginning Of the end
Every time Jew is slaughtered, a Negro is ynched.
stop where you and rembe for you next 1t may
take little while to get to YOU but doubt it not your
will It's either the mob