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Show THE RACE RIOT IN DETROIT The race riot which occurred in Detroit last week, resulting in the death of more than a score of persons and the injury of nearly one thousand individuals indi-viduals serves notice upon the people of the United States that racial relations are delicate and sensitive. The Detroit rioting is one of a group of such incidents which have occurred in the United States recently. They include the clash in Beaumont, Beau-mont, Texas, and the rioting in Mobile, Alabama. The disorders are not restricted to the Southern States, however. Besides the Detroit affair, and the j Los Angeles "zootsuiters" outbreak, a clash recently occurred in Chester, Pennsylvania, where five Negro workers were shot by guards at a shipbuilding company, com-pany, i l-s.'M Moreover, the recent rioting of schoolboys in Newark, N. J., which resulted in the death of at least one Negro student, was a clash between white and Negro groups after an interscholastic track meet. r The Detroit disturbance originated, according to press dispatches, with a fist fight on a bridge leading to a recreational and swimming center. It spread swiftly and impetus was added, according to some Negro leaders, by an erroneous report that a Negro woman and child had been slain on the island. It is obvious that a fist fight between two white men or two Negro men on the bridge would not have resulted in a racial riot. That an incident of this kind should touch off rioting and fighting is an indication of a tenseness in racial relations which promises further disturbances in the automobile metropolis. It is encumbent upon the leaders of both races to treat unfortunate events as isolated explosions of human nature. Surely, they do not reflect an accurate accu-rate picture of race relations and they should not be allowed to create suspicion and discord anywhere in the United States. |