Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-04-19

haEARaEA AtE EGAEGhEHN@N Nt AtaN men
WHO framed Tbs C0ust6tuttea. the
Negro press 81 its yers presence
has Aatlueuevt the public aud the
EAtion's leaders
BY tie insistsHts ca complete
equality, as guaranteed BY che Com
st8tuttlH. " has always been per
foFuluE. actually, necessary task
Tor the whole people 81 these United
States it must be plain 60 an rcas
se0Ablg men that uHgN the Negro is
freely granted hts rghtS, ne more
no less this CuuutFy viii NOT bv
the democracy. that IL claims Go be,
nor that watch its fouHdtns fathers
hoped q would be,
The NgEro Press. therefore rec
aEnGEeS that its chief contributor
iu pressing Tor fcsTdam aHa Justice
Us aat alone for the nc mlaah Nv-
grous but 90 khe zoe mANun ctti-
sens % this great r9untry gt ours,
regardless % race, creed or gslar
Il recognized this trugh 40 gears
ago. even before tie late Wendell
N3ikie Popglariscd ana projected
thH one World theory This press
believed that Il the nauswhtty peo-
PIE VINO were beginning 60 HW0FEe
FROM thg polite slavery gf colonial.
Negro 30 yvars after the CfEIl WRr
Etill had 40 rights that ANY white
man need &C. respect our gountry
would lose Iae srSat respect and
moral leadership, among the su-
called darker races and nations ~
the world
Negro newspapers la World War
period were warning the ma
zion that its racial caste system,
would sooner or later lose Ii friends
who might be useful ia the COM
ing world crises More or less these
warnings were ignored, or i0St eN.
capt apen tho readers OF Tits Press.
The Ncgro Press early in It's sX.
iatpnge consistently advocated
freedom Tor the colonial possessions
from the European powers n has
consistently identified itself as
have Tho Negro people with the uus
aer privileged people the world
over no matter what their creed
or color 10 could be said with
great degree % truth, that this
press, has bysH far more iuterna-
8Huaily minded than the daily press
NhiEb has afforded ana bgasted
news bureaus ia all the principal
foreign capitals Of the verdi,
Despite TINS Identification with
the rest of ths world and especially
with thv Eal0rod groups of the
world, and despite it's eauNtia critl-
cjsm 90 the racial mursa which
have poisoned a large part Of this
Uation~-Ihe Negro Press has been
super patriotic tn support and do
votjoB Go the American flag, and
the country 81 symvollEss.
~ may rrliEruuSsy aud cuutiua-
uusiF attack race aggregation. race
discrimination. and all Eulh evils,
bat 81 completely rejects any soiu-
ton ~ these problems. that means
Identification or alliance with any
Influence or force. political ur 500
T. s.
This accounts Tor large degree
for the failure Of the Russian d.
roetsB American Commupl.t party
Go make Substantial iBruBds Ia the
American NsErp eommHUify, despite
what almost any outside observer
wnHtH have considered A fertile
field bogRune ~ the oppression
which many American Negroes allu
live under iu their 0wu land
II tbia nation had not uarl8rta
q free Negro Press whose editors
we're and are determined fa see thB
problems 90 their people worked out
under lhs orderly processes %
a Werieau constitutional govern
weul &c might have been a after
eut story
Sven lu the darkest hours of
night. r.darn lvpaEingg httfrsuuu.
vf~ta rnnrtraa 900 afE.r hsts
srfvr.,a1 mons fFa Neyr. rTr.g
while HgHHarartly aaraefprtrr
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wars urgH a patriotic rra~e Arfer.
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and ,uBffg ta America
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