The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1956-09-08
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wentions which met in Chicago
and San Francisco are history
now. the Democrats and Repub-
licans have rehearsed their acts.
There was much talk with little
new said; there was much ado,
but little action. They went
through the motion.
When / was a boy on the plan
tation in South Carolina, we lived
near a German family named
Hungerbein. My father, in salut-
ing Mr.. Hungerbein one morning,
asked how were the times? Mr..
Hungeloein replied that times
were tight. Said my father, "A
fellow would hardly think that
times were tight. about your home,
for three times every day your
whole clan gathers about the
table and from the window seem
to have great time eating their
three squares every day" Replied
Mr.. Hungerbein: Hancock, we
are not eating but just going
through the motion"
The Democratic and Republican
conventions went through the
motion at Chicago and San Fran
cisco respectively. The PlutocratS
dominated the San Francisco
convention while the Democratic
convention was dominated by the
Dixiecrats, believe it or not.
When the ,djxiecrats had finish
ed with the Democratic platform
it was another scrap of paper,
When we note that there was dis
appointment among the Dixie
Gratis over the platform as it per-
tanned to civil rights, we wonder
just what they really want. They
won the Chicago convention with
out and beyond a reasonable
doubt. If had. been .Dixiecrat,
] would have jubilated over the
civil rights board" for certain
ly it could handy be called a
plank at all. 1t was rather civil
rights ~scanting," worm-eaten
fragile. The Democrats were
meaiy-mouthed and subsevient
before the convention, when it
came to the civil rights part of
the platform.
On the other hand, the Repub-
licanS were over-cautiouS and hsd
more sputter than speech. OF
course Vice-President Nixon hit
the bulls eye with generalities but
when il came to implementing the
Supreme Courts decision, they
had nothing to offer. The word
IMMIGRATION" was the word un-
touchable. But in this matter, now
as always, what is said, is far
less important than what is done.
Negroes will forgive both Repub-
Iicans and Democrats for what
they did not say, if they will only
come up with program of i'm
fermentation. On civil rights mat
ters, the South rules the roost!
If l were a Dixiecrat l would face
my constituency this fall with full
confidence and if there we9 any
question as to my record, ! would
point to Chicago.
On the civil rights issue, the
Democrats quailed before the
Dixiecrats. 1t all goes to show
what a fight looms before Ne
groes throughout this nation. Ne
,groes must yet learn the primary
lesson of vote consciousness and
iob-conSciousness and dollar
Consciousness. We are still impell-
ed to ask with the lamented Wal
ter White, "How far the Prom s.
ed Land?" Just how far depends
largely upon how the Negro faces
his own plight - for plight It Is,
believe it or not.
When the Supreme. Court can
be abused and disparaged and
flouted and defied over its simple |
decision to implement the citizen
shio of the American Negro, we
get some idea of the land yet to |
be won from the Canaanites OF |
rsce prejudice in these United
States. The Supreme Court mere |
" saws that even as the Negro |