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TBK SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, March 3, 1967
We Were Saying
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By ROBERT SEGAL
(A Sygn Arts Feature)
Soon Sender Abraham A. Rib-
icoff of Connecticut will set up
shop for a \*>ntinuing study of
urban blight ^ly his Senate sub
committee on executive reorgan
ization. And cdce again we will
have a televise* portrayal of the
smells and noisa* the heartbreak,
agony and fnM&ation of slum
life. W
But who willy really watch,
really listen, reallalheed?
For as much aJKmost people
reading this further appraisal of
the Negro Revolution may disa
gree with Floyd B. MjKissick, na-
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tional director of CORE, they
might do themselves and their
country a favor if they would go
back and note what he said be
fore the Ribicoff Committee in
early December: He was the son
of middle-class Negro parents,
destined as either a preacher or a
lawyer; when he was 13, he was
posted—as a member of a Boy
Scout troop — to patrol a play
street and try to keep motorists
away from his fellow skaters.
Police officers then came along
and, declaring it was not up to a
Negro to direct auto drivers, ar
rested him and beat him up.
Said floyd McKissick at this
point in his testimony: “I will
never get the taste of blood and
asphalt out of my mouth. I knew
then I must be a lawyer.”
That taste of blood and asphalt
is in many mouths and helps to
account for the haunting shout
of ‘‘Burn, Baby, Burn”; for the
revolt of Negro youth against the
valiant, patient efforts of elder
statesmen like Phil Randolph,
Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young;
for the alacrity with which mil
itants adopted the Black Power
battle cry; for the contempt in
which white liberals are held by
the Negro vanguard, the Deacons
for Defense, the eager students of
karate and judo.
It is quixotic to continue to
believe that the pace of improve
ment in the lot of America’s 20,-
000,000 Negroes is satisfactory.
There are more Negroes in seg
regated schools today than before
1954, when the Supreme Court
blew the whistle on the separate-
Arab Water Scheme
Has Fizzled Out
NEW YORK (WUP)—The Pan-
Amb River Jordan project, which
wa* aimed at cutting off from
Israel the source-waters of the
Jordan, has fizzled out, according
to a Times dispatch from Beirut
this week.
The cause of the break-down
of the project, the dispatch noted,
was due to divisionism in the
Arab world and the halt of funds
from some of the Arab States.
First news of the eclipse of the
project came with the resigna
tion of Dr. Sobhi Kahhala, chief
of the Arab-Jordan River Explo
ration Authority which was es
tablished at the 1964 summit
meeting in Cairo of Arab heads of
state. It has also been learned
from a reliable source that the
Soviet Union had indicated strong
disapproval of the spite project.
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but-equal hypocrisy; Negro un
employment has doubled in the
last several years despite a gross
national product winging on to
almost a trillion dollars; and the
failure of government, industry,
and the power structures exem
plified by community chests to
bring Negroes into sanitary, ad
equate housing they can afford
is a national scandal.
Nor is it slum ghettos alone
that hem Negroes in: yonder in
the suburbs, reaction to the Black
Power slogan has hardened resis
tance; and way off there in Wash
ington, a conservative Congress is
preparing to sit on the lid of
funds needed to fight poverty,
promote equality of job opportun
ities, and meet the challenge of
intensified health and welfare
problems that abound in the
black enclaves. Can it be only
two years ago that President
Johnson himself reminded Con
gress that “We Shall Overcome”
—he who now sniffs the political
wind of retrenchment and devotes
only 45 words to civil rights in
his State of the Union message?
Can we look to Representative
Gerald Ford, minority spokes
man, for wisdom and real help
in the crisis when he finds it’s
best to attack the federal pov
erty program rather than recom
mend constructive alternatives.
We shall be reminded again
and again in the years immedi
ately before us of the anger and
New York Official
Denies Bias Charge
NEW YORK (JTA)— William
H. Booth, chairman of the New
York City Commission on Human
Rights, has issued a point-by
point rebuttal in response to a
charge by Rabbi Julius G. Neu
mann that the commission had
ignored anti-Jewish discrimina
tion. Rabbi Neumann resigned as
a member of the commission over
those charges.
Rabbi Neumann also accused
Booth of “whipping up animos
ity” among New Yorkers by an
alleged policy of sidestepping
grievances of Jews and Puerto
Rioans to concentrate exclusively
on those of Negroes. Mr. Booth, a
Negro, is a former leader of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
The American Jewish Committee
asked Mayor John V. Lindsay to
meet with “interested parties” to
discuss the charges.
Mr. Booth declared that the
Commission had been “on top of
the situation” involving Ameri
can Jewish Committee charges of
discrimination against Jews in
the banking profession. He said
that as soon as he learned of the
situation, he conferred with Roy
M. Goodman, New York City Fi
nance Administrator and that Mr.
Goodman said he would keep him
advised of developments.
The chairman said that, on its
own initiative, the commission
made a special effort in connec
tion with a severely-criticized
program by David Susskind in
which Negroes made openly anti-
Semitic comments. Mr. Booth said
that the commission obtained
changes in the television show
script before it was shown but
that later, on January 23, the com
mission took a strong stand in a
letter on the program content
even after the revision.
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militancy of America’s new
Negroes — the faster learners,
children of the migration up and
out from yesterday’s agrarian
south, now emptying its Negrbes
into northern and western urban
centers. If we care to listen, we
shall hear the boil-over of those
who want no part of Whitey's
world, those for whom this is the
Post-Integration period, those
whose favorite concept is polari
zation, those who see the strange
war in Vietnam as one in which
a disproportionate number cf
American - blacks are siphoned
intc^ an essentially white nation’s
power play against people whose
skin pigmentation resembles their
own.
Here on the desk, as this is
written, there is a homely pic
ture of a Negro slum jungle—
overflowing garbage cans, clut
tered alleyways, long-since de
cayed three-room houses. The
caption: “We drain marshes
only when the mosquitoes bother
the rich.”
The taste—not of honey—but
of blood and asphalt — is still
acrid in Floyd McKissick’s mouth
and in the mouths of countless
others now furiously proud of the
solidarity the tyranny of color has
imposed upon them. The handful
of whites who patrol the troubled
marshes cry out to the uncon
cerned to set about tapping
America’s wealth for a fast drain
age of the marshes and an imag
inative rearing and staffing of
schools, dwellings, health centers,
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