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have been against the supreme
law Of the land.
However, Virginia and others
opposed to forced mixing Of
the races should not wait too
long to test the viii of the
majority for or against. The
Negro Is prolific and the objec-
tive to control as a majority is
in sight. Many localities have
reported that there is no prob
lem or that indignation has
gone smoothly. Amalgamation
and assimilation of the minor
ity white race can proceed just
as smoothly to the day when
all resistance win be pointless
because the races will be as
one.
This is not q Virginia prob
lem alone. / propose a consti-
tutional amendment to the ef-
feet that there be no forced
mixing Of the races.
Ralph Long.
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Proponents of the Gray
plan somehow anage to
escape the main issue.
Stripped Of the bleating about
property values, the presumed
dangers of intermingling the
races" and exercise of free
dom to send children to private
schools so that they can re-
main uncontaminated, the
issue stands revealed, stark
naked: Is a decision of the
United States Supreme Court
supreme. or is it not? II there
is a right to defy a decision
Of the court, where is our
Constitution? For example, O
Southern senator recently en-
couraged defiance of the
courts decision by his State.
Can he do this and still abide
by his oath to support the
Constitution of the United
States? By what right would
he have the authority to in
vestigate the loyalty and
patriotism of others when he
himself attacks the very basis
of our constitutional system?
In Virginia, furthermore, the
Gray supporters have suddenly
become blatant advocates of
private schools. Fine. have
no desire to deprive any parent
of his freedom to use a private
school. But not with my tax
money. Why should I finance
schemes to evade the law and
perpetuate raciSt doctrines
based on ignorance, mythology
and nameless fears? In its
decree, the Court did not re-
quire forced indignation"
This is a slogan adopted by
some Gray supporters to strike
terror into many hearts at the
prospect that hordes Of Negroes
will suddenly, as if by signal,
intrude themselves in the holy
white pastures If the Gray
plan is defeated. All the Su-
preme Court asks is that Vir-
GINA set as its goal reasoned,
eventual compliance with its
decision rather than pell nell
defiance. If Virginia chooses
the latter course, she resists
the tide Of history and her own
libertarian traditions.
Isadore Perlman.
4 y II
It is amusing and instructive
to consider the inconsistencies
rampant In the hullabaloo over
indignation versus disintegra-
ton. In the first place, equality
Of education opportunity is
not the real goal of the Negro
segment Of the NAACP; their
zeal arises from a natural re-
bellion against the superiority
complex which centuries of
slave-owning had engendered
in the progeny of the Southern
planters.
A second inconsistency is the
willingness to scrap the pres
ent-day pedagogical practice
of separating students into
groups with common traits and
attachments. A true democrat
and believer in education of
the masses on a equal basis.
may not agree entirely with
this differentiation in school
ing: however, the advocates Of
racially integrated education
contend they want the best in
present-day pedagogy for col
ored as well as white. and that
must include the grouping Of
students on the basis of their
differences rather than their
resemblances.
A third inconsistency ap-
pears in the argument that
the teaching Of different races
in different schools is degrad-
ing to the minority group. A
very active member Of the
NAACP In Arlington is a
Jewess and she, no doubt.
urges this view; yet, about ten
years ago. the Jewish COM
munity Of Washington set UP
o special school for Jewish
boys and girls because their