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Friday, Jan. 12, 1968
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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
AS WR WERE SAYING By Robert E. Segal
Other Values and Goals
(A Seven Arts ,Feature)
A small hope remains that a
piece of civil rights legislation
will be enacted soon. It is, in ef
fect, Title V of the Civil Rights
Act of 1967, designed to protect
Negroes and civil rights workers
generally in the exercise of their
constitutional rights.
The proposal has been support-
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ed, in part, because recent con
viction of Mississippi whites ag
gressively curbing the activities
of Negroes, has brought a faint
flush of hope and understanding
to Capitol Hill. The bill prescribes
stiff penalities for anyone inter
fering by force, or threat of force,
with a person because of his raoe,
color, religion, or national origin
and because he seeks to exercise
such rights as voting, attending
public schools, enjoying the bene
fits of federal, state, or local pro
grams or facilities, applying for
employment, union membership
or the services of an employment
agency, serving on juries, using
buses, trains, or other vehicles of
transportation, participating in
federally-assisted programs, and
enjoying hotels, theaters, restau
rants, and other places of public
a coommod ation.
Such the aspiration. And such
the technical outline of the gain
that may be given begrudgingly
by lawmakers who have tried to
convert the bill into a weapon
against labor and have attempted
to restructure part of it into a
vehicle of retaliation against
rioters.
This may be the last'of federal
civil rights measures enacted in
the current era of such legisla
tion — an era producing notable
gains in 1957, I960, 1964 and 1965.
It may be the last of such re
forms, not only because a balky
Congress has concluded it has
most of the voters with it in call
ing a halt to the advances, but
also because many who have
fought so long and so hard for
civil rights legislation now real
ize they are living in new times.
Some have listened- carefully
to the heartbeat of the Black
Ghetto and have learned, pain
fully, that civil rights laws have
not bettered the lot of the truly
deprived and desperate. Soundings
have revealed a changed attitude
in the Black Ghetto: the most
energetic leaders there are opting
for black ownership, black entre-
peneurism, black industry, black
shops, even all-black schools and
all-black police forces. The move
ment for separation from the
traditional municipal set-ups is
unmistakable. ‘‘We don’t want
further colonization of the Black
Ghetto by whites either inside our
enclaves or down-town,” the mes
sage reads. ‘‘Nor do we want just
49% control of the new busi
nesses. We want total ownership.”
You might say the era of aparth
eid has arrived in certain parts
of urban America. You might, in
deed; and you might be accurate.
The recent report of the United
States Commission On Civil
Rights describes trenchantly the
mood in which such deeply-based
separatist attitudes are rooted.
Based on hearings in 15 cities,
the 88-page Commission docu
ment is a record of m extern slum
despair in a time of national af
fluence. The Commission, sifting
the testimony, concluded that
both the Department of Labor
and the Federal Housing Admin
istration had not made use of
available legal equipment to re
lieve the plight of the slum dwel
lers.
Clearly placed before us, then,
is the recital of gloom and des
peration. Clearly indicated is the
determination of the new leaders
of the ghetto to go ahead with
an agenda for improvement of
their own designing, in isolation,
and by their own hands. Over on
the sidelines are older heads —
Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Rand
olph, Roy Wilkins, Whitney
Young— still counselling white-
black coalition, still urging a mas
sive assault on poverty through
the mobilization of government
and those philosopher-industrial
ists who are confident the res
ources exist and can be shaken
loose.
On such battlefields, it still
seems sensible to seek gains by
the passage <xf federal civil rights
laws, however minor and grudg
ingly enacted. But the new
leaders in the ghetto and the
elder statesmen in the wings are
concentrating on - other values,
other goals.
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