Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-13
Housing Ordinance

wing pressure groups could
be avoided If some common
sense and restraint were
used. This proposed local
legislation is unnecessary and
unwise for the simple rea-
son that Washington, the
Capital City of a Nation with
just 10 per cent Negro popu-
lation, already has inside its
city limits a Negro popula-
ton Of SIS or so per cent,
which is all out of proportion
to the national percentage,
and greater than any other
capital city in the whole
world except those of African
nations and Haiti. And fur
thermore, the percentage Of
Negro children attending
public schools in this our Ma
tons Capital is close to IS
per cent.
Any legal action taken
which will make life for white
persons even less tolerable
than it already is in our Ma
tons Capital, what with the
crime situation the way it is,
ETC., will have only one result,
to wit: 1t will drive out of this
Nations Capital the last re-
naming veStiges of culture
and gracious living, not to
mention all of the white per-
sons except those that are
physically or financially I'M
able to go. The end result will
be. not the indignation" that
the ADA and the New From
tiersmen claim to seek, but
instead it will become an all
Negro Capital City, COM
pletely segregated as to race.
And in a Nation which is
mostly white, such a situa-
ton in the Capital City
would not only be ridiculous
and absurd, but also the
rankest kind of discrimina-
ton against the Nations
great unorganized and
pushed-around white race.
r. A. Mullen.
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The Nations only voteless
community is to be used
again as a helpless guinea pig
to prove that naked Federal
powers can make a single
political package of rights
and privileges, Our dictatorial
Commissioners propose to
ban any and all discrimina-
tons in the ownership, rental
and transfers of housing. U.s.
ing this dominant power
once before, our political
masters integrated our public
schools so that they would be
an example for the rest of
the Nation. 1t was done in
such stupid fashion, that in
less than a decade our pub
lie schools are irrevocably
resegregated again. This time
they are all-Negro instead
of white.
In the sacred name Of all
out anti-diScrinination, Fed
eral usurpation rides again.
In the ultimate symbol of
tyra mi c a discrimi-
nation, the voteless capital
Of democracy, our political
masters propose the unen-
forceable. 1t is argued that
Federal Government may ban
any and all determinations
in housing insured by Fed
eral agencies. In this pro-
posed ukaSe there is no dis
tinction between rights which
are enforceable and subject
to law, and privileges which
are earned, but not owned
Conveniently ignored is the
fact that in some fashion
some Federal agency guar
antees or insures practically
all savings and investments
Will such devious Fedora
power be allowed, to impost
upon the voteless, a SECOND
demand of impossible, all-ou
antidiscrimination? It ma:
be done here because nakeC
Federal power can hold com
munity preferences and priv
leges in contempt. But out
side the Nations only vote
less community, rights re
main enforceable and mer
privileges remain unenforce
able. They are earned with
in a community. They ar
not owned by the state.
Thomas E. Mattingly, MD.
Editors Note: The 90
Amendment gives "voteleSs
D. C. the right to vote TO
President and Vice Presiden
~ 1854