, 1963-04-17
LEGISLATIVE RECORD
tContitrJed
Remarks by The President I:

ten appears in the record p~raeticing discrimination. we
have native colored girl OF St. Cro1x VINO belongs 70
the same Order as the Roman Catholic Nuns IN st. Cro1x.
When they took her t .the Country Club, they told the
nuns she can sit on the. sand, but cannot bathe. That's
~ record! Whel>the Roman Catholic priests TOOK
Father Bertrand from here to st. Coix, they told nm
he can sit on the sand in the Country Club IN 81. Crolx,
but he mustn't 90 into the water. And the Country Cub
is RIGHT in the heart of Frederiksted ToWn-Where every
child must 90 for recreation-right next to a Ball Park,
and vet members of this Legislature would sit here ana
tell us that we should not wipe it out? ! am going to ask
this Legislature to include the Country Club and JUSTIFY
it as a part of the Frederiksted Development Beaen FRO
sect. They should not be a part OF our community. |
think it is in the public interest that we make that a
part of our public development project in Freder1ksted.
A club of this kind has no business being SO near TO a
city where our youngsters must live.
These people are saying that the President OF the
LEGISLATURE attached a list of the members OF these seq,
regated clubs to the Harvey Aluminium Summary which
was handed out at the hearing. | think that | had a right
to do it, because the people have a right to know VINO
their enemies are. They doaWant the people IN these
islands to enjoy the rights OF Democracy. they 40 want
thepeople in St. Croix to enjoy the same privileges here
tofore. And l think it was proper that the people should
know the witnesses who are going to testify that night
against a basic industry that would help, mostly, the
common people of the Virgin Islands, and especially. st.
Croix. l think that the attachment OF the list was pro-
per, and / make no excuses for it..
We can recite instance after instance OF this type
of thing going on in St. Croix. | say this, as | mentioned
before, their purpose is low wages. AS long as they can
keep the people in a go cents economy, they would not be
able to enjoy the benefits Of a civil rights law, because
the drinks in these hotels and places would be beyond
the reach Of the ordinary man. # you pay him more
money, then he, too. can help to implement our civil
rights law. And if we are going to put a law on the
books, then we should proceed and make the way clear
SO that that law could be effective; and thenaWe can
truly be called the ~"shoWplace of Democracy@s@Bu
while we. are talking about Democracy ins the Virgin
Islands we do have a rather smelly situation regarding
race relations in St. Croix. And as | said for the record
before. the Chair would like to go on record as heartily
endorsing the remarks of our distinguished citizen,
Judge Moore, on that night. Twas in complete agreement
with the Judge right down the line. | believe he made
a complete summary of what exists in St. Croix, and |
believe what he did in that meeting was for the benefit
If all concerned. He gave them a lecture and told them
that it is their duty to change in a 900 colored commu-
nifty. / think he talked to them like a pastor talking to-
his congregation, and begged them to change their ways.
Could the colored people of these communities move
70 Mississippi now and put up a club and say no whites
ere allowed? Do you think that we can go to Isael and
-. -. 4loE .--o- o--o~0 o110yyOIO T1nxy would