Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1951-09-28

Responsible Citizenship
BY Robert DUR

BY Robert DUR
still the thnlng of lot of people that after the
between the should been tried and
convicted rebellion against the United States
and that should have been made to for having worked
its millions of slaves that the lands of the slave holders and
other forms wealth. what have which represented
300 years of degradation toll the souths blacks
should have concated quidaed and moneys there
from invested in financing purchase farms equipment
homes and training the freedmen responsible citizenship
instead of abandoning them the conquered south deal
with pleased the might rebuild economy
their backs in the throes uncompensaed toll sweat
and degradation swahed atmosphere hate the
south loves Believe it millions of unenghtened south
eners still love to hate Hate is them hatred born
OF the defeat of their have hold the Negro
as property.
There twisted minds the south today that never
awakened to the fact that there justice equity
and that God just have been taught that
have property right in another any than
can sell that which does belong to him.
The right to hold people in political economic any
other type Of bondage has been given
dydua people for that matter had the right or be
sold property another.
What the Negro has been forced emancipation
as forced third and fourth class citizen pay the
It's losses in the between the still making
forced payments that "loss" south is not satisfied
with that 1t and takes compounded through
white legislative judiciary and government system
supermposed by traditions which disregard constitution
of the United States and the laws OF God
is indeed tragic that like Judge Waring and his wonder
ul wife we are forced to conclude that employ legal
force to break the multiplicity shaekles that bind us that
because graduasm like river of by and BY runs only in
to the sea of never
This reminds of the old adage "a man is only en-
hted to the freedom for which he willing work and fight
And follows night follows dav that as the barriers arc
STRUCK down the Negro whole and more be-
come what he demands in all the human relations If
ne would have friends he be friend if he would have
justice he must be just with himself and with others if he
would be first class citizen must sefshlesv strive n at
tain the station of equality active responsible censhn
thought much along this line recently as walked up
ana down the corridors of hospital in medical center of
the university of Alabama where had gone to visit rea
1--WE VINO suffered broken injuries in an auto
mobile accident " - 49,
Here is 300 bed hospital which was begun many wears
ago ny group OF civic white who had a
sense OF responsibility for the INDECENT folk of the COM
munlty its enlargement through years has been carried
forward by citizens with that sense of ses
bllity and citizenship
Meditating the fact the Negroes are excluded from
training opportunities Offered there the conclusion
at Negroes in all states where they included should sue
Tor admttance the setting up comparable seup for Ne
sroes In Alabama 1t could be at TuSkegee
visited recently who had been a Sunday scboo,
SUPERINTENDENT for seventy years and who had
oeh ielea by paraytic stroke During our talk he told mo
" Whi'e man. for whom he had built house forty wears
ago mad visited him each day he had been stricken 70
see ne or his family had whatever they needed the wav
OF food, prescriptions filled other ncidentals hecanso %
He "he man put 1t al this mans funeral "Ie was a GOOD
man he was helpless human being which we all could bo
p'ouu ana should emulate and felt it my duty to as far nc
possible be responsible for the he was unable 10 moot
we IN the south must emphasize school in church and
elsewhere the Importance making ourselves en,l &c
dS responsible seess human beings in matters of general
welfare ana as servants of humanity This will increase our
stature as ~
~ "i decrease the fear others have that our Iac ~
sense OF responsible citizenship may mean that if allowed In
eIcoures without restriction based on race we NAV tend o.
WaR down rather than LIT up those with whom we como 10
contact That's the stuff we got to watch