Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-03-31
Let's Join The Human Race
A Message To The South

Let's join the Human Race, is the subject of
Public Affairs Phamplet by Sringfelow Barr recently
published by the University Chicago Press which be-
of recent happenings in the South, and their eff
feet upon and relation to world conditions and events
appears to be 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. StrngellOw Barr is distinguished scho
lar and world traveller and the originator of the wide
ly heard radio program, Information Please"
who remains free from the smear campaign, the of
which is one OF the main weapons of our AntCOmmun-
list campaign
In the very beginning of his phampet, which does
not fail to mention the late Wendell Wilkes "Our
World" Mr. Barr makes references to the maxum long
current among the natives of Africa and which, recent
years has spread, and is 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
tudes thinking, and practices which has caused Am
erlcanS but more particularly we SOutherners to set
ourselves up as race aside fact supported by our
preachments 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 pos
session OF the exclusive know How" of the Atomic
Bomb, still maintains the to command the respect
and provide the leadership of the world.
In his discussion of the point of the false ASSUME
ton of the superiority if not ecusveness 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 IN America despite the great advances in Ameri
car Technical skill. g
Mr. Bars conclusion seems to have been fully con-
fined by the startling information from the Argentine
few days in the announcement by the Peron Govern
ment that the scientists of the Argentine had produced
an Atomic explosion by far SIMPLER and less costly
method than that employed in the United States.
Taking the cue from what has happened in the
Argentine, and which adequately confirms the conclu-
sion of Mr. Barr it must be only matter of short time
before the power bases for thinking regards to
race will like powder be the knowledge and
possession of people throughout the world
Sensing the eventually of such development and
seeing that the cOored people of the world far num-
berS the white people, indicated by Mr. Barr one
OF the first things for Americans to do is to halt the
spread of the maxim: NEVER TRUST A WHITE MAN.
During time when democracy is in 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. Here
in the South have had the of the Martinsvie
seven have the of the Trenton six we have the
startling statements heard by all the world of the form
er assistant President of the United States former Sec
rotary OF State and former member of the United States
Supreme Court, Governor James M. Byrnes of South
Carolina on the question of segregation in public schools
still IN this late day. for Mr. Barr points out time is
running out here in the South still acting and
talking in that only lead the rest of the
world closer and closer to belief in the maxim NEVER
TRUST A WHITE MAN.
Mr.. Stringfelow Barr's phampet is one that should
be read and read and then reread by every thinking
Southerner for there be doubt that the time is
already here when Southerners render the greatest
service to the nation to Democracy and to the world by
standing up and procaimng that the whole world can
hear: LET'S JOIN THE HUMAN RACE.