Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-03-08
THE DEEP SOUTH
By Robert Durr
For the NNPA Newst Service

|
South it is reported that during
the past four years colored physi.
clans, for the most part, made
barrels of money In that same city,
white physicians are said to have
made choakersacks of filthy lucre
In this town, as in many others
of the South, hundreds of mothers
| lost their lives while in the valley
| of the shadow because they did
not have the proper prenatal care
due to their poverty stricken con-
ditions. So many white doctors
were impelled to delived charity
/ cases without fee, in the local
/ charity hospital, while cOlored
doctors were accepting fees for
delivery of problem cases at the
maternity clinic sustained by the
United States Public Health Ser
vice as a demonstration project
to show what can be done with To-
cal voluntary cooperation under
immediate local supervision.
In every instance where pro-
fessiohal whites move in to do
service without charge, there
should be colored professionals
who are public spirited and Soc
tally enlightened enough to top
that contribution even at a sacri-
flee. The degree to which a man
contributes of his means, himself,
and skill without regard to self
remuneration determines whether
he is the equal of other men who
make such contributions.
In the area of adventurous free
public services we need a whole
generation of new colored ~indivi-
duals if we are to give birth to
race of people or segment of one
world citizenship.
A soldier friend of mine return.
ing from Europe tells of a young
colored soldier from the deep
South spying, another soldier from
some part Of the British Empire
as he walked along with three
white British comrades. To the
cOlOred Yank from the Dixie the
sight of the colored Britisn-born
soldier was. a sight for his sore
eyes. He yells to him "Hey man."
but the colored Britisher refuses
to recognize the Dixie Yank.
He and his buddies enter a
saloon for a drink of beer. Soon it
is discovered that the boy from
down behind where the sun go
es down" in the deep South has
followed the group into the saloon
and is butting in on their CONVEX
sation with, What do you say
man where are you from"
By this time the colored Brit
Usher realized that he had better
take the situation in hand. He
turned to the pitiful boy, who was
so woefully penalized by being
born black and in Dixie, and said,
to him, 81 am your color, but hot
your kind" For the first time,
that colored soldier realized that
he not only lived in world of
people of varied colors but Of
various kinds.
Some day, if we make progress,
that boy is going to grow up to
learn men are more often discri-
minated agaist, Jim crowed and
Stunned because of many short
dimings, lack in social graces, in
ability to make themselves do
what they ought to do even though
they don't want to dow hat they
ought do than because of their
color. He is going to learn that he
has no right to pull others down
by commission or omission, inso-
far as trying to force himselw in
to a level of society into which
he has not evolved.
We need a host of new colored
individuals who will Specifically
give of themselves to others =
men and women who will go into
the most backward places and
make a sacrifical contribution to
the end that those lowest down
who want climb up and out may
have he opportunity to do so. Nee
ded - a new negro, a Negro who
is big on the inside and yet is as
humble as a lamb, a Negro who
| is truly willing to spend and be
spent to the end that the races
of mankind may unite as rivulets
pouring into one sea.
| It's onet hing to be denied by
others, but to deny oneself to the
end that others may have the
! chance to climb I'D and serve