Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-10-29
Does The South Have The Sfamina?-
BY S.. S. Taylor

the south have the stamina 10 regain the leadership
of the nation2 In the early days Of the nation the south IN
leadership early II contributed Patrick Hen
ry Thomas jefferson George Washington Others
to our independence and national organization.
But energy sucking vice nabbied its muscles, weaken
cd its will and drained its attention from and strength
giving enerprsethe vice of Negro slavery with its seques
prejudice discrimination and segregation Some southern
ers identity consequent contest between the
white south and black no-it is between
the higher and lower selves o the white south
When America got the Negro, it like the Squatleys
getting Lucille No longer poughng dtehdiggng farm
ing cooking washing clothes and mindng the children
problem That what Negroes for When the
ic pursuits and organization Of the north rendered slavery
Improbable there the canny norheer sold his slaves the
souheer and then freed them The Negro not the only
person who pawni) The south LOST several billion dol
lars in the deal, but nobody forced ii to buy slaves,
is slowly emerging in the world As has often
happened in the past the in threatening Capaz-
ing die-hard coonasm, exploitation Of natives in Asia
and Africa and segregation and discrimination in America
shouting slogan of plenty for everybody and equality of all
making itself the arsenal communism have
been the arsenal of democracy the Russian casts his shadow
half of Europe and Asia and attempts to oment dis
and revolution everywhere
The nations which have preached democracy for every
body and practeed for white people only have found
helpful their policies retain enough allegiance
citizens subjects weather storm the
leader of the forces for democracy the world United
States furnishes the target for the heaviest propaganda bonn
barment and the object of the propaganda is racial dscrm
inaion.
Discrimination sneaks from under cover in many
places But there is comparison between which
discrimination sanctioned by the authorities and in
which discrimination is ouawed There comparison be-
tween state in which there isolated instances local
dissatisfaction with state order ntegrate and in
which there is authority that the will
don its public schools invoke its police power and shed blood
rather than permit pupils of the Negro to attend public
schools unsegregated.
Only president has had courage to meet
the subsection of mnorites head should be significant
that the storm of opposition he provoked unable
seat him Congress of whatever party has continually allowed
itself to be swayed by the minority which openly
and sanctions racial discrimination The Supreme
tanning its high standard of everything that best
mocracy and Amercanism has had the courage strike
deathblow at discrimination
If the white south has the stamina and the moral hard
hood to face the present accept the realities
world and to meet the challenge of its conscience
it step only into the leadership of the nation but
the leadership of the world Today whether justly uniuy
the south is regarded probably outside of South Africa
the worlds strongest fort of racial intolerance If the white
south has the stamina abandon that attitude ride
to heights the acclaim with which will be welcomed
into the ranks of unqualified democracy the white south
does have the reach that height will
denim itself the nation and the included Negro to the gather
ing of destruction which the discerning gather
ing in he