Arkansas State press., 1951-02-16
this
day and age
You Can't Escape Forever
BY Clyde o. Jackson, City Editor

the Senate committee One of the bills receiving an airing
fore this committee had to do with Cometology The
who introduced the bill and who seeking passage
short stocky man who could be iusably called
dian For he seemed not concerned with the
Liabilities of the bill but rather with keeping the audience
stitches with laughter This cigar welding amboyan senator
always mad the comcal answer for question popped at him
and the audience seemed to be appreatve enough Even
who usually quite anecdotes found
some of them rather interesting and amusing That until
e senator Ga dead ringer for Mickey Rooney action
RESEMBLANCE got to the ageod joke about the Ngra boy
IN court who stated amt pleading nothing til hears
ebdence This of course sanderous as far as was
concerned There only five Negroes the audience
hundreds but proud say little laugh
ter when the senator finished this can't explain the rea
son. but have noticed that the white people
amused to slanderous jokes concerning the Negro
you will notice. the old black smpeton portrayed the
screen Laughing and numbering the kings language does not
draw the loud long laughter would not be so
naive to claim that this is the that white peo
pie are getting wiser concerning the Negro for may that
they are merely getting tired of the old soup
and over again.
But to get back to the imagine just having
little harmless fun Cat the Negroes expense when he
cracked the joke but wonder he stopped think twice
before stating it. OF the other hand he may have
been taking the Van Dalsem point of As probably
know by it has been said that
when the Negroes all in uproar his Vicious,
ridiculous and defamatory" week. he did
not care what the Negroes said thought for of them
were voting in his community Well maybe this comedian
tor of Monday night had the Maybe
no Negroes voting in his community and therefore maybe
is not concerned with whether he ISLANDERS the reputation
dignity Of the Negro people Arkansas not There are many
OF our elected officials who taking that attitude nowadays
yknow. Those who do however no further than the
nose their faces They can't that the Negro Arkan
sas is growing in power with Suppose there
Negroes voting in the senator's district this time that
mean that there will be any voting in his district? And
the assumption that there will any Negroes
voting in his district there may day when he will
to for office other than He may
to run for Governor for congressional representative
aor day. He can't ignore escape the power of the Ne
vote then Negroes will forget the Van Dasem in
cident of last week and shall forget the uncaled
for Joke of last Monday evening.
People here in Arkansas tell you that the
full candidate for Governor in last years election who
governor Of the previously completely ignored
gro population during catered the wims the
dxecrac white and took the ito hell with nggers
tude After all he could afford to do this for there
Negroes in Arkansas voting that time He thinking
of 1850 the when he would again attempt for this
office Either he didn't believe that Negroes would be voting
that time he thought they would have forgotten all about
his past record So when 1880 came he the Negro
muny woong the Negro VOTE for since the time he had been
in office and 1850 the Negroes had gained right in
Arkansas. THEY HAD GAINED TIE RIGHT TO VOTE And
he knew they held power but too late make appeae
ments apologies the Negroes had been deeply hurt and
in mood for fosvng they went down the line for
candidate who while he had done nothing outstanding for the
at least had not voiced contempt for the
To prove that this aspirant wooing the vote of the
Negro will remember that during the time of his reign in
office in the early days his campaign year.
way between Negro and ngger but during the final days
this campaign and things began grow hotter somehow
this who had always been described avowed Negro
haer and definitely antNego learned how pronounce the
word Negro properly
This is just small example AS time goes BY the Negro
will gain in voting power The poll tax system will be banshed
before ong-beleve it not-and there will be limit to
the number of Negro voters in the state of Arkansas Before
long not only will many Negroes be voting but Negroes
will be running for high state and city offices and they will be
winning in a number Of instances.
The smart politicians of today will take special heed in
this light They the Handwriting the wall" and they
preparing They making that they will be caught
predicament such Van Dasem caught n thereby
hurting their chances in the future.
So politicians whose boast is that ye have fear Of such
need ponder the future and search the remember
ing he who laughs longest he who laughs last hs da-
bolical cyncsm, in you didn't know you
week..
this contributors do not
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