Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-11-15
The Report Of The Presidents Committee On Civil
Rights And Mississippi

Whot will 90 down in world history as one of the most
important and for reaching documents in the struggle
for perfection of democracy in the United States is the
report recently mode by the Presidents Committee
Civil Rights Whot gives the report its great important
and significance is the fact that it attacks rocoI color
and religious preudices, he most deep seated and de-
stuctve force American life and offers the remedy by
which the nation be put in step with the rest OF the
world in respect TO race, religious and prejudice. at
time when, the President of the United Stotes sold
in reference the report Men of good will every where
striving to create world wide moral order firmly
established in the life of nations and expressed the
hope that the report itself would become "A char
ter of humon freedom in time.
Reduced to it's simplest form the Presidents Commit
reports coils for autonomous society in the United
States, which simply society in which all men
regardless of roce religion color guaranteed equal
lily under the law.
Now thot the Presidents Committee has mode its
port calling for abolition of discrimination and preudces
based upon race religion and color it would be well that
every American citizen, view of the toct that the ques
ton presented is of great urgency otested too
by the President of the United States, reexomne pre-
JUDGES in oil forms to it's origin, history and its e
feet upon democracy in the United Stotes and upon what
is referred TO modern civilization.
In the south where preudces and discrimination is
more deeply ingroined especially in states like Mssiss
ippi the report of the Presidents Committee furnishes
compelling reasons for reexomining the history, origin
and effect of pejudces and discrimination in the Unit
ed States.
The report of the Presidents Committee is great
challenge United States citizens and every state to
leadership the foshonng ofo world being shaped
daily around US.
For Mssssippions, in reckoning the origin and history
of preudces and discrimination the first fact to be
dersood in thot every facet leading to the development
of civilization wo developed hundred of years before
nd finn nd IN
and debose mankind; that, prejudice and discrimination
is an invention, invented to rotonolize political, eco
omic and social theory; that it is not of southern
Mississippi origin; that it tronsPlonted TO this
try from England where it invented and used to
rotionoze British Imperialism and brought into practice
where British dominance desirable regardless
to color in proof of which Ireland and the Irish
ore outstanding historic exomple>
One of the worst results of the propagation of preud
ices and discrimination in the world wos hot it finoIy
lead the distortion of all learning upon which study
of the origin end history of monknd is based and de-
spite the fact that Some OF the great dstoronst like
Ernest Sevce Cox Count Gobeneo and others of their
like have been epudoted Missssppions still base their
support of prejudice and discrimination such distort
ed theories.
One of the first objections announced in Mississippi to
the Presidents report based the contention that
it would lead to ntermorrioge misceqenotion and
qrezoon 1T indeed mscregenotion and mongrelizotion
for the existence of the backward nations and of
fhe world rather thon the applications of the principles
evolved out of the Imperial system with it's rotionizo
on of and color pejudices, study of these back
word and notions will show that instrumentation
end mongreIizoton resulted from the existence of So
cety recognizing superior imposing it's will upon an in
feror group Leading SocoIogist point out that in the
United States annually thousands of mixed booded Neg
60 to the white group the products of smuor
condition now existing the the south and especially in
states like Mississippi, with respect to negroes In an
autonomous society artificial uperiorty con be com
peIng and natural affinity of for race would tend
TO eIeminote whot oreody ticking place in this respect