Show PIONEERING EQUALITY If your fog up upa a bit as y you u read these lines ines it may be because the writer Is j 1st a bit steamed up by all the he oratory and wringing hand of recent days It Its It's time for forthe forthe the politicians and mouthed loud l mouthed ud-mouthed self appoint ed critics of o United States citizens tg to shut up up This Is a pioneering country and the fact is t for more than a tr hu hundred d years weve we've been pioneering in the field of race relations In r recent cent d days day's Yi hared in cities in inthe Inthe the United States But it it was not racial via I epee Whites did not confront blacks The fact is hat that a herd of teenagers teenagers and a few adult criminals went on a spree in a lot of cities and a permissive society tolerated It And by tolerating it the authorities encouraged it Maybe that permissiveness was part of the experimentation that Is essential in pioneering It isn't the way we would have handled the situation but it is the way some men of unquestionable plot motive and nd integrity c chose ose to handle it it In any event let the critics of the United states particularly foreign critics be silent and quickly Is there a country in the world where the black bla k man has the freedom the opportunity or the worldly goods that the Negro o jn in America enjoys You mow know there thre isn't Britain closes its doors to such grants The hip set in France tolerates them themas themas as tourists and pets pets Black students from Africa have repeatedly the insults and isolation tile the USSR affords And some of those GIs GI's who ran off to Sweden to avoid Vietnam were Ne Negro ro back from Sweden t to face the the medicine court martial and prison and nd dis discharge h rge Why Because they say t the e Swedes didn't accept the Negro in that Socialist society So we are having problems Difficult as asIt asit It may be for those of us who live livo In small communities like this one to understand they are very real and very lems But America Is working at resolving resolving them and already we are re a hundred years the ahead of most of the nations of the world You haven't heard any of f those world opinIon Ion nati nations ns inviting American Negroes to im im- im immigrate migrate to their countries hav you you- And you wont won't The pioneering will g go on as It must And when when America has learned how to handle the problem then some other nations of the world Will copy the formula and the Negro will be accepted and incorporated into their their national society But not until America has tas shown the way You can bet on It |