The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-07-06
Racial Segregation
Best For All

Editor of the Herald
Do we as a Negro race want In
tegration? Do we want to pull our
selves up by our own bootstraps,
or do we want to pull ourselves up
by the white mans bootstraps? Do
We as Negroes think that mixing
with the white race will make us
any better than we are today? Or
do we think that God made mis-
take when he made the different
races and colors? Are we tired or
ashamed of our color. do We want
to be absorbed by the white race?
We all know how the mixing of the
races started 1t was. at that time
was a great wrong to do to our
people when they could not help
themselves. but in the past so years.
there are lots of whites and blacks
guilty of this race mixing crime.
Do we want revenge for that great
wrong by doing another great
wrong ourselves?
God said, vengeance is mine.
and las you SOW. SO shall you
reap. So let God have the job of
carrying out His plan Of punish
ment 1t is not for us to punish the
guilty. Let God settle it all and in
the meantime let us try to hold to
what we have left.
In regard to our race. let us be
proud of ourselves as a Negro race.
Let's fight with every means at our
command to retain the identity of
Our race, | truly hope that the
small number of Negro parents
that signed the petition for the law
suits by the lawyers for the NAACP
will look at themselves in a good
mirror and see if they still feel
proud of themselves after causing
all of this confusion In the county
and state for all Of the rest of the
Negroes
II on account of the pending suit
by the NAACP the schools are
closed the white people already
have plans to send their children
to private schools, but do we have
any such plans? ] think not. Now
is the proper time to throw the
yoke of the NAACP from around
our necks and come out and take a
stand in favor OF segregated public
schools for the benefit of both
races. So many Of us have in school
from one to eight children and pay
no taxes at all and some who pay
taxes don't pay enough to send one
child to school If we tri ed
money and pledges to send our
children to private school,
doubt very much If We could get
enough money to send them to
school for two months In the year.
So you can readily see why it is
so essential that we keep our
schools segregated. so as to keep
cur public schools in tact and to in
sure education for our children Are
We giong to be guilty Of neglect to
our children by insisting on inte-
grating the schools of this county
and causing them to be abolished?
1t would be fine thing for all the
Negroes in Virginia if the signers
Of the petition would all withdraw
their names from the petition and
get rid Of the NAACP who with its
law suits is upsetting the peace and
good will between the two races.
At the NAACP meeting held few
weeks ago al the Beulah A. M. E.
Church, the speaker from Falls
Church a speaker for the NAACP)
said. the reason why such few
Negroes we're there from Farmville
was they had been brain washed
Well, I tell you now that the NAACP
is the best brain-washer this side
Of Russia Imagine the calling some
one else brainwashers
II We have equal schools and
equal facilities in every respect, We
are by far much better off than we
would be II we had integrated
schools. repeat what l have said
many times before that believe in
equal work with equal pay. equal
Job opportunity for all. believe all
Of this will come voluntarily if we
stop the outside agitators and the
NAACP from interfering with US.
I believe that segregation among
the races Is better for both. so let
us as rare proudly accept our