Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-28
No Cause For Glee, No Need For Hate

No Negro in Mississippi who has the wisdom to
understand the total dependence of the great of
Negroes of the state upon white people, and the in
Independence of white people and Negroes in the state
will find any for being geeful after Pres
iden Eisenhowers speech Tuesday night the send
ing of Federal Troops to Little Rock Arkansas in order
to bring about the Indignation of the Little Rock High
School,
That the sending of the federal troops to Little
Rock became painful necessity for the President of
the United States is all the for Negro cti
zens in Mississippi to seek to maintain atmosphere
of goodwill and in such atmosphere be ready to join
with responsible white people in seeking less painful
solution to the same problem in the state
Nor is there any reason for hatred of Negroes for
whites nor of whites for Negroes arising out of the
current situation which Negroes and whites alike have
been called upon by the President Of the United States
to face.
Hatred being far more dangerous symptom than
most human reactions pass on to our readers the
editorial which follows taken from recent issue of the
Christian Science Monitor dealing with the subject of
hate reflected in the Little Rock situation but before
turning to the editorial would point that what it
can be pointed to many Negro leaders and orators
whose evidence of hatred towards white people have not
been concealed.
The editorial from the Christian Science Monitor
Follows:
In the current turmoil relations one of the
most helpful acts we have noticed that of Davis
Fitzgerald of Augusta, Arkansas Shocked by picture
of crowd eerng Negro girl who attempted to enter
Little Rocks high school, he took dramatic means of
appealing to fellow citizens for better approach to their
problem Mr. Fitzgerald republished the picture in an
hate white faces.
He added the warning, "When hate is unleashed
and bigotry finds voice, God help ALL" Northerners
might well say with similar concern Don't Judge the
North by recent ugly evidence of racial hae-even of
violence and ntimidation-in Chicago and Levittown,
Pennsylvania. Indeed all these and
other pictures going out to the word-must hope that
their beloved nation will not be judged this evidence
But if Americans, North and South are not to be so
judged they will have to stand up and be counted against
hate and violence The vast majority will have to take
more positive position They will have to make it very
clear that racial problems must be Accommodated and
solved within the national family by good WILL reason
and legal processes.
1t is only fair to note that in this the South abors
under extra difficulties In that section millions of
kindly intelligent Americans convinced that both
progress better if degree of separateness is
maintained Most of the Souths critics would very like
H find themselves taking this position if they lived
under the conditions. Usually transplanted North
erners become most ardent segregatonsts. Moreover
the South feels misunderstood and misrepresented.
Non-Southerners will be able to help improve race
relations better if they grasp these facts Yet the OBJ
legation to present the true nature and purpose of the
South remains The South does not hate the Negro it
cannot afford let mobs the face of hate of the
South The South possesses the poweregal and peace
full resistance-to fight for it's views segregation
Good citizens may have latent sympathy with the pur
poses of the criminals who bombed Nashville school
because one little Negro girl was admitted. But they
cannot stand by and their schools destroyed
Southerners may reasonably uphold their view of
the law they cannot uphold awessness that may agree
with the aims of mobs; they cannot permit mobs to
rule In the North there is less for hatred
and violence There injustices and there fric
tons caused by large movements. And there is
lmpatience with the South. But hate solves nothing
And resort to awessness is detour from the road to
just settlements
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