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the interracial agency's board of
ink it is rude" when Negroes
Or "boo" a speaker.
d. cit is rude to sit-down in a
mans office or hecltle him when
he attempts to speak. But it is
ruder for society to keep a man
from earning a living; it is rude
to make him come home empty
handed night after night after be-
ing told that there are no OPEN
ings'; it Is rude to make it i'm
possible for him to feed his family
year after year; it is rude for SOC
iety to keep his family living in a
ratinfested- hovel in the midst Of
racial ghetto"
Berry declared, "The gentle
white moderates' have to realize
how long they have supported,
actively or tacitly, a system of
organized Capitalization of the Ne
gro masses, of second-class cfti-
zenship in which Negroes have
been made aliens in their own
land"
Celebrating on his remarks,
Berry told the Associated Negro
Press Monday that he had refer
ence to the July 4 rally held by
the NAACP in Grant Park when
Mayor Richard J. Daley was pre-
vented from speaking by a group
of anti-segregation demonstrators.
The group also booed the Rev. ].
H. Jackson president of the Ma
tional Baptist Convention, U,S.A.,
Inc, and pastor of Ohvet Baptist
church here.
He added: However, I had all
kinds of protest demonstrations in
mind, including the recent sit-in
by the Congress of Racial Equality
at the Chicago Board Of Educa-
tion offices.
We're getting a lot of comment
both from individuals and from
the Chicago daily press that these
demonstrations are rude"
In his remarks TO the Urban
League board, at a noon luncheon
meeting in the agency's headquart-
ers, Berry said that Negroes as
group have been gentle and patient
for 100 years and a day-taldng
systematic abuses which no other
nationality or ethnic group in
America would stand for one min
ute: The denial Of voting rights,
job opportunities, decent housing,
good schools, and the chance to get
ahead and better themselves. Now
Negroes are engaged In a spasm
Of desperation, trying to gain total
inclusion In the body polite of
America.
The gentle white moderates,'
he continued, and some upper
class Negro moderates who are
trying to 'out-white' white folks
In remaining above the civil
rights struggle - are going to
learn that we are living In an en-
tdrely new world since Birming-
ham. 1t Is a world In which even
the most informed civil rights ex-
perts haven't gagged the dimen-
sions Of the momentous changes
taking shape.
THE 'moderates' must realize
that the old system of doing things,
one in which the power structure
Of a community trafficked In
promises and postponements, will
no longer be acceptable to Ne
groes. Nor will it be acceptable.
to Negroes for the power struc-
ture Of city, whether public or
private TO appoint a Negro moder-
ate or outright Uncle Tom to do
its bidding. Those days are over.
Negroes want a say in naming
their own leaders. They are de-
manding leaders who are respon-
sive to their real and urgent needs.
Berry went on to say that the
gentle white moderates' have lost
contact with the Negro revolt but
he praised many white civil rights
activities for making that revolt
'interractal In character and lin
creasingly effective in making
gains and breal1throughs through
their support Of Negro indignation
leaders"
Berry appealed to both the
gentle white and Negro moderates'
to step across the line into post
Birmingham America" and sup
port the civil rights movement to
the full. He predicted that many
millions Of them would do so when
they fully recognized the terrible
price which they, as Americans,
taxpayers and human beings have
been paying for racial discrdmin-
alton over the years at home and
abroad"
There can be no go-slow pro-
gram. There can be no 'tokenism'
program. We must move forward
as rapidly as possible. The eyes Of
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