The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06

AltIG is LIle prospect OF atom
bombs all around, even, per-
haps, for Prince Rainier and
Princess Grace in Monaco. In
Nevil Shute's unforgettable ION
The Beach it was a small ma
ton, going off half-cocked with
the bomb, which brought on the
death Of the Planet.
There is the new composition
of the United Nations, suddenly
a m t i y, street scene, a
primitive mobocracy about to
outvote the west even while still
in some parts given to Gambia
ism.
There is the almost umimagi-
nable potential of Red China.
There is missile growth, dat
ing planes in the air and soldiers
on the ground.
There is the invited bankrupt
cy of space-racing.
There are the recovered pow
er of Germany, the deviations
of De Gaulle, the impotence
of Britain, the halfway dissolu-
ton Of NATO, the incredible
existence of Castro 80 miles from
Miami.
There are the saturation points
i'll ability to respond to these
and other menaces or change.
There is Britain.
AND, YES, THERE is the de-
structiveness of CHS, NBC, ABC
and other reporters as they tat
tle-tale it falsely all over Asia
Africa, urope and South
America that the plight of the
Negro in the South is sin so
enormous we must wash it away
before we are to go on with
world leadership.
THE MOST pampered group
on Planet Earth at this moment
is the American Negro.
1T WASN'T JUST because
you were a Southerner Friday
night that you found jarringly
Irrelevant. petty, out of context
out of spirit, out of proportion
the commentator who rang in
the false and WORKOUT warning
that unless the South behaves
ITSELF the world may as well
hang out the mo Hope" sign.
Even granting all that is
charged absolutely nothing is SO
bad about the lot of the Negro
here that these lmlnensities OF
trouble. threat and underprivi
lege abroad depend on it for
solution.
Even granting that the Negro
is deprived in some places Of
voting, and that segregation
exists, legally or illegally, for
nlally or informally, throughout
the whole warp and wool Of
America mot just the South
how comfortable, safe and easy
his status as compared with thai
of peoples in many of the trou
bled lands and how lying anc
monstrous the pretense thai
Americas hands are not clear
enough to assume the leader
ship required of it.
WHAT WILL ASIA say:
What will Africa say?"
You don't hear that asked st
often now that our Southern
colored people have become the
pets Of America. You don't heal
it now that spotlights have dis
covered real eliminates of segre
cation in South Africa, ulti
mates of underprivilege ant
pllmltlvism in the Congo the
fiaSco being made of freedom
BY SO many once colonial ma
tons.
If ASIA AND AFRICA pro
test at all and there's no cvi
dence that they do. absorbed
as they are in their infinitely
Norser LOTS the answer at thi.
critical International moment i.
that our racial agitators pipe
down on their revolutionary de
mands and tattle-tales abroad
not that the South surrender
what it deems to be very life.
Let me write the songs of {
nation and l care not who makes
its laws y
| THOSE WHO FIND 1T incon
sistent of the South to tall
states rights and accept : OF
ask federal monies and scr
| vices have a point But it ISM
as big as they think.
There arc many things which
only the federal government car
or should do Nothing in The
states rights principle requires
US not to 20 on being our Uncle
Sans n ep IT W. sharing the
boons. assuming the burdens. 1,
is all a matter of degree and
kind and circumstance.
SOMETHING ELSE is the
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