St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-03-23

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Adlai would not be for no Ora
business. Oh, no If a mob got
want something done about it
RIGHT THEN AND THERE, not
after the elections are over and
not at some way-far-off distant
time. Am right of wrong?"
Il think you're right" / said.
Its very hard for even liberal
white people to realize how much
something like a decent educated
young colored girls life being
threatened by a mob can do TO
Negro emotions. It's hard for us
to believe Southern white men to
be gentlemen after that, and al
most impossible for us not to
think that some Of them should
have been arrested then and there
and restrained THIS YEAR from
throwing stones, not in some
GRADUAL, dim, distant future
when Miss Lucy may be too old
to go to school. For once, Jesse
B., agree with you"
Which proves that we both is
race men," said Simple. Last
night in the barber shop heard
the fellows talking about Ike and
his vacations down in Georgia,
which is right next to Alabama,
and how Ike has not said a word
about all them Negroes being ar
rested because they no longer
want to ride them Jim Crow bus
es in Montgomery. Not a num-
bling word has Ike said to date,
and he is President of the United
States. 1t looks like the President
would care something about black
as well as white over which he
rules, said them guys in the barber
shop. But as much as / like to
argue, all said in that shop last
night was, Mems, it's all accord
ing to whose OK, oxen or ass is
being gored'
However. gsntlemens and bar
bers', / said, I bet If Mamie Eli
senhower had to set on a Jim
Crow seat in the back of a bus
everytime she goes South with Mr..
Eisenhower, the President would
have spoken long ago - not only
spoken, but hollered out loud, also
called out the militia. l bet you he
would not permit his wife to be
segregated and insulted by no bus
drivers living in Georgia nor Ala
bama. And If Mamie said she did
not want to ride on those old buses
nohow, 1 bet Ike would never let
his wife be locked up and finger
printed in the public Jail the way
they did Rosa Parks. They don't
even finger-print the Russians
when they come over here, and
the Russians are supposed to be
our worst enemies, also atheists.
But they done finger-printed ev-
cry last Negro minister of Christ
in Montgomery. I'll bet you IL
President Eisenhower's pastor was
to be arrested and finger-printed
for trying to put a little democra-
cy on a bus, Ike would go his bail.
But Ike attends a white church,
not a colored one, and Ike do not
ride a bus to get to church. but
places il in a limousine So / said
in that barber shop, It's all &C
cording to whose is gored. Am I
right or wrong?' And every man
in there, including the BARRIERS a.
greed that was nght-so there
was nothing more for me to argue
about"
You were, I presume, in a col
ored barber shop" I said.
You know l were not in no
white barber shop" said Simple.
Which gives me food for one
more thought, daddy-o. Just sup
pose Ike had to get his hair cut
in a colored barber shopi Just
suppose when he is in a small
town like in Georgia, the Presi-
dent had to run all over town
looking for colored barber shop
before he could get his hair trim
med for his golf game on televi-
sion Don't you reckon Ike would
be mad Don't you reckon Ike
would wonder what does all this
segregation meant Man, before
you could say Jackie Robinson.
the President would have done is
sued a statement abolishing seq
regation in barber shops. Also he
would return up North real quick
thinking he could get his hair cut
in any shop in the North. OF
course, he would be mistaken
Then Ike would really realize
what IL means 10 have a dark
complexion in this U.S.A-from
back seats on buses and stones in
college to no hair cuts except in
eoiored barber shops. And the
Civil War has been over almost
hundred years. How GRADUAL
can you be
The Supreme Court has not yet
ruled on barber shops" said