Evening star., 1961-06-16
LETTERS TO THE STAR
Observations on Our SeHes The Negro in Washington

prejudice free white man
I've ever known remarked
once that the white man rec
ognizes color and from this
stems all of our troubles.
William ]. Saunders.
AS a native-born citizen of
Washington, D. c., of 30-odd
years. 1 found your articles
commendable. But part of
the last article made me see
red. How does one go about
creating an understanding
with humans who consider
other humans who are diff
ferent in color and back
ground less than human?
AS for the Negro SENSITIVE
ity, believe me it is justified.
You whites have been in
sulting the Negro consciously
for so long it has become a
conditioned reflex. Even now
the Negro is seldom accorded
a title or a last name when
addressed after a two-second
acquaintance, business or
otherwise.
J. A. Gray.
Although not all Of our
criminals are Negroes, statis-
tical data show a very definite
correlation between our great
increase in crime and our
rapidly rising Negro popula-
ton. The question I would
like to pose is what are the
NAACP and CORE doing?
Certainly winning court deci-
sions is not enough.
If these Negro organizations
spent one-half of the money
and time they spend on civil
rights cases, on education
classes for both adults and
teenagers, recreation centers,
social workers, the Negro
would become acceptable,
thus eliminating the need for
much of the civil rights litiga-
ton.
To the charge Of second
class citizenship" leveled by
Negro organizations I answer,
"Why don't you help the
American Negro become a
first-clasS citizen, the kind of
fellow American we can look
to with pride?"
DisiIIuSiOned Liberal.
I read all of the articles by
Haynes Johnson on the
Negro in Washington" I
found them articulate, fact
ual, objective, and timely.
1t seems to me that several
salient facts emerge from
these articles:
l. Urbanization Of rural
Negroes into Washington life
in education, employment,
housing, civic pride, is es-
sential.
2. Negroes are still discrim-
mated against in housing,
buying. employment.
3. The lifting of racial bars
in schools, public eating
places, hotels etc. has made us
feel like first-class citizens.
4. Negroes should present
their problems more thor
oughly to the white people to
be better understood. Also
many Negroes do hide behind
the excuse Of racial preju-
dices for their own short
comings.
c. E. QuaIIs.
I quote the following from
page 88 of my new 566-page
book on the Races of Man
kind:
I'm the United States, with
its Is million Negroes, de-
ScendantS of African slaves
imported into the country
during Colonial times and a
period afterward. three dis
tinct classes of them are
discernible, viz, (1l the pure
Negro, the vast majority,
who seldom can graduate
from secondary school, o.
the Negro whose ancestors
gained Hamitic or Moorish
blood in their veins before
leaving Africa, relatively few
in number, and (3j the Negro
whose ancestors gained White
blood after their arrival. The
last two classes, chiefly the
third, supply practically all
of the Negro students of our
colleges.
Anyone is poorly informed
who does not know that the
whole integration scheme was
concocted in New York City
as a Communist Zionist =
NAACP conspiracy.
Col. c. L. Kephart, USAR Ret.
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Your articles on THE
Negro in Washington have