Arkansas State press., 1955-07-29
They We : Never Learn
By S. S. Taylor, Associate Editor

science fiction Tv drama tells how doctor transferred
knowedges and sls to the brain Of patient who e
carried doctors dream of research Such surgical
transfer Of knowledge would be marvellous indeed
would be nowhere near as marvellous as man 5
failure experience The accumulated wisdom OF e
ages his for the taking but does he take II NO some OF
the outstanding of life in the present day repeat
outstanding of the past
One of these is illustrated in the current denune-
aton of the NAACP by many segregaonss Many of these
seem to think that the NACP is the cause of the light a.
gains segregation and therefore to stop indignation IL on
necessary to stop or dseedit the NAACP Call outsider
radical communist inspired" This is survival OF the old
oa technique so familiar elders among silence the
leader slavery and thru the early stages OF freedom
those who attempted to keep the Negro suose
by ndentiying solating and practicable eliminating ooa
The theory Kill the leader and the cause wiz
die -,
current revival of in the attempt to iden-
tify and ntmdate petitioners in The general
practice followed and handed down 10
every It has equally been failure in ever decade
since began has been failure because oil the aeep
leaders who create causes but causes V
create leaders AS long as in the
human breast long will great give birth To great
headers white and black Destroy leader and two will
spring up in his place The NAACP has become powerful
affairs because it has dedicated itself TO
fundamental principle of Amercansm The principle is SO
great that it cannot fail TO magnify any ndVaaa OF group
which voices it and champions it.
Another error unearn the that
wrong be held and entroned by subsidies 10 put IL IN
other words there is ancient belief paralelng the ku
the leader superstition that man has price, ana
that be by learning that price and buying
him again. every decade has produced men VINO
could not be bought Oh there will always be M VINO
can be bought will be many who cannot The buy
ing runs all from offering money, position or IN
uence leaders offering dicontened groups segre
gated housing schools parks, pools community ceners uV
emile and reforms little better and other hand
outs with strings attached But there always some lead
ers and who be bought These keep alive
the fires of conscience in their easy-going public
third technique suppression familiar to all Negroes
is the technique terrorism Even into own day nave
come the hooded figures the fiery Every not
hero who quail before the prospect Of
terrorism But has been sufficient to put
down O
leaders
terrorstc practices seems to ride In the Kill
minister Mississippi and the shooting OF Ne
gro college These events have not been
proved to work of haers and baers, but the
resemblance the terrorStc methods oil
the past suspicion in the breast of every Ne
gro and many person. The nation watching WITT
undisgsed interest the doors of these crimes to be de
ected and should they not be found the pas
clearly shows terrorism does not stop movements
Eliminating leaders buying avors, pracucing terrorism
these things stop There has to be some
thing wrong with before anything can stop 1t
The reported leader of the NAAPW be
cause he public interest in his endeaVos
deeply symbolical 1t is the of Tfepressbe trend
Humanity sweeps onward; where today the martyr
stands the crouches Judas with the SILVER
in his hands far the stands ready and the
cracking fagots burn while the hoong mob OF yeser-
day CLEAN the scattered ashes
into hsory's golden urn"