Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
Mr.. George W. Schuyler view"
And Reviews"

One of this country's most able newspaper
CARELESS of and certainly the Dean of Negro editors
and correspondents George W. Schuyler editor of the
New York edition of the Pttsburg Courier who is also
a columnist for number of daily newspapers in the
New England section of the country.
He is a man of wide and varied contact in the top
circles of American life and has wide and varied
facts and experience world traveller
During his all too infrequent travels in the South
observer of the local scene when in Jackson he
failed to be received audience by the late Major
Fred Sulens the dynamic editor of the Jackson Daily
News.
In the Pittsburg Courier Mr.. Schuyer's opinion is
expressed in his column, "Views and Reviews
In one of his recent columns in the Courier Mr.
Schuyler arrives at conclusions with which
heartedly agree, which follows
Congressman Diggs of Michigan and others are
planning conference Negro economic rights. This
is most timely and matter of fact such conferences
cannot be held too often However it to this OBJ
that they should be named conferences on Ne
gro economic opportunities because the Negroes
nomic opportunities almost unreasonable. Indeed,
Negroes have wasted whole lot of time their
called civil rights which in the last analysis can never
amount to much unless and until they have common
surate economic power In country which passes
laws than any other EARTH and promptly dsobeys or
ignores them, getting civil rights laws on
the book is nothing to ecstatc about 1t may be all
well and good to have such laws the book but with
out economic to implement them they amount to
little.
Let US take the matter of discrimination in hous-
ing about which there is much pother these days What
laws have been passed in this connection have been large
y honored in the breach And yet when you get right
down to it solving this problem requires no race of Elm
stems What it requires is group of people who know
now to organize their assets and go into the real estate
market in a big way. With few million dollars avail
able for investment is quite possible to buy or con-
struct good housing in practically district without
tlme-and moneywasting furore, and it has been for
long time Indeed some Negroes have done it in many
parts of the country, including the South
Similarly, the improvement and expansion of Ne
gro-owned businesses (he backbone of any group as
prng to get anywhere in capalstic society is not
difficult matter except to the defeatists Socialists
1eowtravelers and professional mendcants who have
been the races leaders by default for the past 80 or 40
years. l can see sound reason why American Ne
groes cannot organize their liquid capital like the JAP
anese Americans, the Chinese Americans the Greek
Italians and others who started out with as many strikes
against them as the Negroes and yet today have infinite
~ more economic enterprises going basis than have
the coored brethren If Negroes had as much invested
IN an economic program they have in religion political
and propaganda organizations they could stop yelling
Tor hep (Which is becoming nuisance even to the more
tnoughtfu Negroes) For example, there few hotels
ana restaurants which Negroes could have purchased
In the past 20 years land they have certainly had
enough experience in this field but instead invested
their cash in fields that brought forth little or no reve
nue..