The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1949-04-30
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Robson Is Just Blowing His Top

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ing people with history that has fought off human and
slavery and daily continues fight against in
justices accept and embrace with open arms Communist
which has Us world position by enslavement,
double dealing and fear Could the American Negro be
guble accept blindly phoney propaganda
known TO them?
Could Negroes forsake this Republic and commit trea-
against a nation created with their help. Black
here with the white and who built this
country. They worked with Europeans who here to
get away tyranny and slavery of their home lands
They helped make this the greatest nation in the world
of wilderness They know that there liter
ally millions millions Of people from many nations
in the world who would their souls 10 have the
privilege and have at this moment-to become
citizens Of the United States Of America the richest the
most powerful the most progressive country the face
Of the globe.
We realize that in country there attitud
waste of energy. eompacency that in the present
of national history scarcely afford. We
kDow that there countless evidences of soundness
f generosity, of self-relance the American people
There also among selfish Americans who do not
share the opinion that every is entitled to equal OPP
portunty but these people in the minority Because
of this the hope of freedom and individual achievement
is still alive. Even today the u S. offers every
and woman frontiers and challenge to work for
the better life Each day Negro rises to compete and
contribute to the wealth and influence of the United
States We know other country entitled to loyalty.
In this country the Negro interviewer into the frame
work of our system. Our compilations range from
the very dA est 90 the white but hearts and
minds much American the so-caled white
American.
pated in every that the United States has engaged in.
He realizes that priceless freedoms first class citi
zenshp that the American whites enjoy not handed
them freely but came after much boodshed sweat and
suffering We realize that fight for position
through the press the ballot and boodshed if necessary
We have that right here in the L. S. That is why
have marched off and have fought and worked side
by side with other Americans Whenever the freedom Of
this country is threatened will again take up arms.
Proof Of our loyalty came when the United States
entered World War II. There many conditions
favorable to Negro morale in general How could who
had enjoyed legitimate rights and opportunities of
first class citizenship in country enter enthusiast
tcay into insure the basic freedoms for the rest
Of mankind There still in memory the disappont
ing and humiliating experience of World War l. We
turaly feared repetition of the well known discrmina
tory practices of the Army and Navy Furthermore dur
ing the of industrial preparation for active
fare the Negro had been blocked in his every effort to
operate fully in the common cause
Yet in spite of all this we displayed outstanding cour
aggressiveness and lives that those
loved would someday enjoy fully the fruits of freedom
which belonged to us.
Looking ahead and working for self improvement is
American habit is the heritage of people who,
too long ago looked empty wilderness and
kind of country. land where could be free to
their share of happiness prosperity, and security And
education Of the tools they used build that
try AS the frontiers Of wilderness receded education
opened in the ideas the machines. and the
cesses that helped young nation grow great Because
education has been integral part of free dynamic
system have achieved the highest standard of living
ever known by people in any country at any time.
To-Day we nave surveyed our land and know that
must begin to husband it's New for
maintaining wealth, power and world leadership
be sought. To those who look ahead tomorrow, the
is clear II lies in the full development of the
greatest resources of aI--the people Of America.
The contribution already made by trained leaders of
Americas fourteen million Negro citizens to science
cation religion medicine, agriculture and the arts could
have only been possible in such nation We have
made great strides. We shall continue to progress
The Negro masses realize this They know that Paul
Robson is blowing his top and day dreaming His
statement is big Joke to Our interest Negroes
definitely tied to the welfare Of America and its interest
is tied to the welfare Of large section of the world but
at the time America not rich enough powerful!
enough to endow the world rule it. In the former
enemy countries still under American occupation the
6 European nations of the Marshall Plan in Asia and in
Latin America to various and different extent there
hundreds of millions of people whom America can
help but only if they willing to cooperate freely with
America The safety and power of America largely de-
ponds the cooperation that elicit from nations
which the objects Of America assistance. America
alone not do the Job Of setting the world its feet
If America what the Communists say il is-an
empire in the making-or If it the hub of inter-
national, which is about the thing, the problem
would be simpler We could rule foreign countries with
stooges, could as pleased destroy their
resources for the benefit of economy and
could induce their unmanAgeable leaders to plunge them