Evening star., 1954-05-21


ing their children and grandchildren in
non-segregated schools.
Just Wondering.
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Mutual separation of the two races is
q matter involving no injustice. Where
the two races have an equal feeling Of
dignity Of race, there can be no feeling
Of inferiority. except that engendered
by guilt complex.
Any court that would claim that such
o feeling Of guilt constitutes discrimi-
nation, is In error.
Where there is an equality of separa-
ton, there can be no discrimination, for
the very essence Of discrimination Is
the condition Of inequality.
Therefore the attempt Of the group
Of nine ex-lawyerS and ex-politicians,
even when clothed with the former dig
nifty Of the Supreme Court, to force
their personal feelings on the way Of
living of 100000 900 Americans is Of an
arbitrary nature. How the people will
react depends upon the amount Of in
telligence and courage they have.
Arthur NewcOmb.
It is doubtful if future historians will
ever note blacker day in the internal
affairs Of the United States than Mon
day, May II, 1854, when the nine old
men of the Supreme Court in effect did
away with one of the basic principles
Of this country, the right of State to
make its own laws, in ordering abolish
ment of segregation in public schools.
One does not for a moment question
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all men are equal in the reason for the
Supreme Court actions, but unfortu-
nately lack Of segregation, like many
fine ideas, works only on paper and has
no practical value or place in everyday
life.
It is most regrettable that people who
make laws are seldom in a position
where they are personally affected by
them or have had any personal expert
ence or feeling Of them.
Southerner.
While reading your editorial Of May
18. "The Ban on Segregation" I was
moved strongly by the purposeful ig-
noring of what seems to me and many
others to be basic issue.
What moral or ethical Justification
exists for present policies of racial
segregation, especially in the light Of
Americas attempts to foist demo-
cracy" on q divided world? l''4 7aa13a
Is your editorial writer completely
unaware Of the fact that millions of
yellow. black and brown people all over
the world are being wooed by Commu-
mist preachmentS which emphasize the
United States deceitfulness in talking
of one kind of democracy in interna-
tional relations and practicing another
kind at home?
The international application by the
Western powers of the selfsame racial
in the seventeen States affected by the
Supreme Court decision is in no small
wise responsible for the sorry state of
their colonial affairs today.
If the United States is to hold valid
position as free world leader in the
fight against the international spread
Of communism, it is only too apparent
that the decision of the court outlaw
ing segregation within it's public schools
lends additional and much-needed
strength to that position.
Our endeavors to convince the colored
peoples Of the world of the sincerity Of
our leadership have certainly benefited
greatly from this landmark decision.
william E. Blake.
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AS a practicing lawyer in this COM
munity, and as a student of consti-
tutional law and leading decisions in
volving civil rights of American
Negroes, personally feel it would be
grave omission to permit your edi-
torial of May 18 to go unchallenged.
You complain that the United States
Supreme Court had no legal precedent
for its ruling in the public school
segregation cases. Assuming all you
say in this respect is true, might ask,
did the court ruling in Plessy VS..
Ferguson have any more? That court
actually abandoned the law laid down
in the Dred Scott decision when it
recognized the Negro's standing before
the court as an American citizen, enter