Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-06-04

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EQUAL facilities which may
again be violated by write peo-
pie at their convenience.
In school facilities, libraries,
parks, museums, art galleries,
auditoriums, hospital facilities
SEGREGATION tits best means
inequality, but in most cases it
means white only for services
and Everybody for taxation" 1t
means the use of the Negroes
tax money to fight his efforts
| for eual salaries.
Economically, to Negroes Seq
REGATION means the last
hired and the first fired" 1t
means closed doors 10 certain jobs;
to investing in certain securi-
ties; to buying desirable prop
erty, or other goods.
S o cia lily, SEGREGATION
means one never enjoys the priv
ilege of being an adult who can
perform on the level of an able
bodied man with a mind of his
own. One is a boy or a girl un-
til he becomes old and decreipt
when he is suddenly transferred
into everybody's AUNTY or
UNCLE.
Politically, the word means dis
franchisement and exploitation
and being used as the scapegoat
by demagogues who contrive to
exploit poor whites. 1t means
lack of participation in the gov
eminent by which one is govern
ed; inadeuate police protection,
lack of public services on his side
of the track; police brutality and
injustices before the law; feaI in
speaking out on matters of pub
lie concern-or even in expressing
hhnestly his own hopes and as
pirations. In short, it means
Staying in his place." the limits
of WHICH are defined by people
who seem to regard his well-be-
ing as a threat to theirs, people
who are insensitive to the yearn-
happens to be clothed with a
ings of the human soul when it
black skin.
Is it any wonder that Negroes
| generally experience emotional
violence or a mental blackout al
the remotest suggestion that
segregation will continue? Is it
not understandable why Negro
leaders generally steer clear of
announcements which may even
motely be construed as favoring
| the continuation of segregation I?
! To white people SEGREGA-
TON means protection from $50
cial quality" (which is buga-
boo. To Negroes SEGREGA-
TION means the absence of
everything that men everywhere
consider important, reality
Hence, our dilemma in race rela-
tons. Hw
But let US answer the ues.
tions. Number one: Why doesn't
the Negro in the South speak for
himselg? Answer: He is a.
fraid. He is afraid The Southern
white man does not want to unow
the truth, Notwithstanding his
ministers preach eye shall know
the truth and the truth shall
make you free" He is afraid his
words will be distorted to mean
something entirely different from
what re intended. He is afraid
; he will be singled out by those
who do not share his opinion and
attacked in ways and by means
against which he has no defense
He is afraid the vehicles of pub.
lie expression willmain closed to
him while giving voice to those
who misuse his words and abuse
him personally. He is afraid of
a coroner's verdict "Death at the
hands of unknown parties"
Question number two: Why
does the southern Negro not re-
pudiate the northern Negro who
presumes to speak for him :?
Answer: In many instances the
northern Negro says what the
southern Negro would say if he
were not afraid for his life and
| that of his family. furthermore,
the soutrern Negro refuses to al
! ienate himself from other peo
| pie, whether they be northern
| erS or soul herners write or