Arizona sun., 1961-06-08
Is He Confused Or Against?

Anyone interested problems that Negroes face in
America especially Phoenix will find highly conus
the editorial comments this subject in the local
daies editors the hand believe want
think they believe that they all for the
ntegraion Negroes the full status of American citizen
ship there things that show in the
editorials the tenor of the stories the headlines and
columnsts that don't quite fit into this liberal
picture.
editorials quite clear that the writers not
for that take the rights of of businesses
licensed the public refuse to Negroes they
wish to do They against the "regreable Supreme
decision that declares school segregation
Federal civil rights laws guaranteeing to Negroes the priv
ege of voting the enforcement of these laws like the
enforcement of school ntegration violation Of states
rights"
They also quite obviously opposed to the efforts that
Negroes make sometimes assisted by whites break down
discrimination and segregation which continue exist in de-
ance OF Supreme Court decisions and orders b SUCH Federal
agencies the Interstate Commerce Commission,
executive orders by the President himself.
They evidently just opposed efforts by
groes themselves and oppose completely
lent procedures kinds Of and segregation that
exist in states which, like Arizona have laws prohibiting
anNegro praces Editorials have accused Negroes
seeking white public accommodations of seeking to
geherness."
Phoenix, for instance, for long time Negroes
plane and local. refused service the
Sky Harbo Phoenix among
plane passengers When the Sky Chef restaurant and
cocktail lounge opened in facility that belonged to all
the citizens whose taxes paid for it, this practice continued
Finally internationally leader Jordan
to their protest to the City Council After consid
erable excitement the Council members convinced that
this practice would not stand the They
order to the concessonare and with blast the walls
discrimination "came tumblng down"
There of the predicted trouble either businesswise
otherwise But for this determined protest the
Mr. and Mrs Jordan Ga sort of Negroes might
still be denied service in the city Sky Harbor
sions in All-America Phoenix.
The Republic almost altogether excl-
svey who blaaty support these same and even
anti Negro nointS Of
recent example of confused edtorializing is the
one headed Racial Dcord in the Republic of Tuesday May
2S just after the bloody mob attack the Freedom
Montgomery The 20 first with his right
hand and then with what the other
doing In the first paragraph against the
white segregatonss' their dsgrace to the SOUTH In
the speaks contemptuosy of the Freedom
Riders by calling them the o-caled Riders AS
matter Of fact these brave determined h1.
white-ARE Freedom Riders!
American histories we don't read about the socalled
Boston Tea Party We proudly by early Amer
leans seeking to correct the taxation an effort
that surely plenty of dscord THE BOSTON TEA
PARTY Believe me! American history will just as surely
and as proudly record the story of the Freedom Riders
Next the writer blasts the Negroes Montgomery and
their leader Dr. Martin Luther King already lead
them successfully against the mpregnabe segregation
for bravely church to talk and prav
over the vicious unchecked of violence mob
ing political capital out of church service
Do Christians remember proudly the protestant mini
sters OF Germany who at the risk of their
tate to speak out in their dictators and
their murderous persecution of Germans?
In the stroke of his writes in the most
derogatory terms of Atty General Kennedy this man who
surely saved Montgomery from dsgracef extreme
OF mob savSgery Of him the editor neither
the experience the temperament with the Montgo
cry race problems He states further Kennedy doesn't
believe in States rights What rights? states rights in
cude to the editor the right of states the
interstate Commerce Commission that
shall not be segregated nor in their sta
tions? Evidently Mr. Kennedy this order is the
law of the land.
worst OF all the editors implication Negroes Con-
greS and the executive department should
De sas1ed TO permit Montgomery to defy openly and
permit mobs viciousy to attack citizens actions are en-
rey within the law because the University North Carolina
SuoentS elected smart Negro edor-in
cnef OF the Law Review and because white women in
MISSISSIPPI helped Negro flood victims by distributing diapers
ana mixing formulas Doesn't white women in
ne south have always loved Mammys babies as long as
she Kept them in their place?
can anyone by reading his page tell me what
a1fectlng Negroes the editor is really FOR?
= w. A. Robinson
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