Jackson advocate., 1951-05-12
Let's Join The Human Race
A Message To Mississippi
And The South

Let's join the Human Race is the subject of
Public Affairs Phamphet by Strngfelow Barr recent
y published by the University Chicago Press which be-
cause of recent happenings the South and their effect
upon and relation to world conditions and events ap-
pears to be more directly message to the South than
to any other section of the nation.
Before going further it might be we'll to state right
here that Mr. Stringeow Barr is distinguished scho-
lar and world traveller and the originator of the widely
heard radio program, Information Please, man who
remains free from the campaign the of which
is one of the main weapons of AntCommunist cam
pagn. ! ~xI
In the very beginning of his phamplet. which does
not fail to mention the late Wendell Wilkes "ONE
WORLD", Mr.. Barr makes references to the MAXIM
long current among the natives of Africa and which, in
recent years has spread and spreading rapidly among
the rest of the coored people of the world: NEVER
TRUST A WHITE MAN.
Among four false assumptions which Mr. Barr
points out being responsible for the existence of at
utudes, thinking, and practices which has caused we
Americans, but more particularly Southerners, to
set ourselves up aside fact supported by our
preachnents and practices of white Supremacy is that
Americans know How and American money, can pro-
duce enough to stop Russia and STILL because of our
possession of the exclusive Know How" of the Atomic
Bomb still maintains the power to command the respect
and provide the leadership of the world
In his discussion of the point of the false assmp-
on OF the superiority II not excusiveness of American
know how Mr. Barr points out that there are scientist
inventors and engineers among other races and in 9TH
er parts of the world equally capable as are to be
found America despite the great advances in An,or
Technical skill.
Mr.. Barr's conclusion seems to have been fully con-
fined by the startling information from the Argentine
lew days ago IN the announcement by the Peron Govern
men that tie scientists of the Argentine had produced
an Atomic explosion by far SIMPLER and less costly
method than that employed in the United States
taxing the cue from what has happened in the
Argentine and which adequately confirms the conclusion
OF Mr.. Barr it must be only matter of short time be-
fore the power basis for our thinking regards to race
WILL like gunpowder be the common knowledge and
possession of people throughout the world
Sensing the eventuaity of such development and
seeing that the coored people of the world far out num-
bers the white people, as indicated by Mr. Barr one of
spread OF the maxim: NEVER TRUST A WHITE MAN
During time when democracy is in a life and death
struggle with communism; when the Billions of colored
people OF the world who watching the struggle and
making ready to take sides IN its final conflict are more
interested and concerned In the fact of human equality
the fact of food and shelter the fact of sickness and
disease the fact of human equality than with mere
theological statements pointed out by Mr. Barr and
recently confirmed by General Macarthur here in Mis-
ssspp and the South have had the case of the Mar
tnsVlle Seven; we have the of Willie MCGEE not
erased by the electric chair have with us the start
ling statements heard by all the world of the former
assistant President of the United States former Secre
ary of State and former member of the United States
Supreme Court Governor James M. Byrnes of South
Carolina we'll those of Mississippi and Georgia on
the question Of segregation in public schools still in this
late day, for Mr. Barr says time running out here
we are IN Mississippi and the rest of the South still
acting and talking III that can only lead the
rest of the world closer and closer belief in the MAXIM
NEVER TRUST A WHITE MAN.
Mr. Strngfelow Barr's phampet is that should
be read and read and then reread by thinking Mis-
ssSpan and SOutherner for there can be no doubt that
the time is already here when Mssissippians and South
can render the greatest service the nation and
to Democracy and to the world by standing UP and pro-
claiming SO that the whole world can hear: LET'S JOIN
THE HUMAN RACE.
Editor Notes: The above Editorial from a
previous edition of the Jackson Advocate with minor
corrections reprinted at this time in response to
numerous requests from Graders in Jackson and 9TH
sections of the state.