Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-04-03
There Is No Reason To Justify Putting
Off The School Equalization Program

The state legislature having been in session
for almost three months without finding the ways and
of financing the program for equalization of
schools enacted into law by the proceeding exraordi
nary Session of the state Legislature despite the evil
dent desires of the majority of Negro and white citi-
of the state although the desires of Negro citizens
carrys little weight with members of the legislature be-
of their general disfranchsement and denial of
the right to VOTE is looking about for
for putting off the whole program until
1856, and mayhaps to still further date into the
future.
Such being the it is we'll to here examine
of the and already being discussed
together with some facts and opinions in rebuttal
The first and most weighty for delaying the
equalization program in the eyes of the proponents of
delay is that for the most part conceed honest desire
to await the verdict of the u S. Supreme Court the
abolition of racial segregation in the public school
tenn of the nation The hasty rebutta here being
to simply point out that in vitality similar cases,
like the right of the Negro to vote in the Democratic
Primaries in the South, the court took from 1890 the
year of the end of the Reconstruction Era until 1896
period of around so years. before reaching conclusive
opinion in that matter Is it conceivable that the court
might take a really long time before reaching
elusive opinion regard to the abolition of segregation
in the public schools The question that naturally follows
is is it true that the citizens of this state must be made
to wait such possible long time before the adoption of
program of education equalization in the state?
We recognize of that there is the
touchy matter which have provoked some timely
cealed calls for violence by those who see white people
resorting to violence should such condition be the
result of decision of the o. S. Supreme Court outlawng
segregation in the schools This touchy matter gives
another reason The fear that the court action would
the immediate mixng-up of Negro and white
children in the same schools.
The first rebuttal to this reason for delaying the
adoption Of the program is this Every honest and in
telligent white person and every intelligent Negro in
the state of Mississippi knows that the first thing
that the Mississippi state Legislature is going to do if
and when the u S. Supreme Court outlaws segregation
in the schools is gerrymander the school districts
to put all Negro children and white children in separate
school district and by law force each child to attend
the school in his district Here is the why most
intelligent Negro citizens in the state support the
equalization program practical matter despite the
ideastic calls for negration this being the
already sharply defined dividing line between the Ne
gro and white neighborhoods throughout the state which
makes for easy gerrymanderlng.
AS additional rebuttal to this last mentioned rea-
it be pointed out that white people have been
segregation and the philosophy of white supremacy
Negroes which may in large measure account for the
existing quarters of unremitting belief among white
people that mixing and mngng with white folks, as the
saying goes is the sole and only desire of NegroeS and
for the existing quarters of unremttng belief among
Negroes that the only time that American Negro is
NOT being segregated is when he is mixing and mngng
with white folks.
From the unremitting quarters of belief among
white people comes the fear of amalgamaton mon
grezaton of the white that the opponents Of segre
cation contend will result if white people and Negroes
start FREELY" mixing and minging This is a view
totally at variance with the findings of modern ehno
ogists who point to the fact based scientific study and
investigation that people of different ethnic back
grounds are drawn together non-segregated society,"
where they relieved of the force and Compliments
that exist in segregated society.
AS final rebuttal to this last mentioned reason,
supported by the findings and the facts of modern eth
nologist the Mississippi Legislature should be the first
to abolish racial segregation by law in order prevent
further amagamation and mongreization of the
races in the state.
The concluding to be considered here is the
reason often heard especially from those who don't want
to see the Negroes of the state have much of any kind
of an educational opportunity, is the that white
oil hn nr oppfh footN No
don't bear equal share of the tax burden of the
state
This concluding reason being the weakest of all
would simply point out that lot of white folks pay
ing big the custodans to speak, big wealth
produced and still being produced by the abors of Ne
wealth are much the tax payer the custodians
of the wealth.
The foregoing premises considered there be no
valid for putting off the School Equa
zation Program.