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Show Two Extremes: Left and Right By CLIFORD HUNTSMAN The polarization of opinion around the problem of segregation segrega-tion serves as an interesting study in extreme right and extreme left viewpoints. The extreme right white supremacists supre-macists (Whites in the Right Because Be-cause of Might) feel that segregation segrega-tion is justifiable. The Rev. Corey Daniel, pastor of the First Baptist Bap-tist Church in Dallas, Texas and president of the local White Citizens Citi-zens Council, has written a pamphlet entitled "God, the Original Orig-inal Segregationist" which claims to have "over a million readers already!" Not content with just a pamphlet, Mr. Daniels has put this essay along with "Seven other Segregation Sermons" in a full- sized hopk. Listed among segregation segrega-tion Sermons are: "Let's Return to Africa Her Stolen 'Children," "Mixiecrats vs. Dixiecrats 101 Best Jokes on the Race-Mixers," and "Proof That Race-Mixing is Godless Communism." THE EXTREME LEFT presents just as absurd a facade on the question of segregation. The "Weekly People," official organ of the Socialist Labor Party, had this to say about the Birmingham bombings: Yesterday it was the rope. Today it is the dynamite bomb or a bullet fired from ambush. But the puroose is the same to terrorize ter-rorize Negroes into sul-russion and acquiescence in their role as wage serfs in a capitalist society. so-ciety. "By lynching," wrote Oliver Oliv-er C. Cox . in his" "Caste, Class, and Race," "Negroes are kept in their place; that is to say,, kept as a great, easily exploitable, common-labor reservoir." The same rigid, stereotypical thinking found in much of the ' right wing is found in the left as well. On questions such as capital punishment, mental health, and segregation, we find radicals on both the right and left of us. How many Americans are effected by their propaganda? |