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Friday, Mar. 15, 1965
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By ROBERT E. SEGAL
(A Seven Arts Feature)
It takes the applause meter
recording reaction to President
Johnson’s State of the Union
message; it takes Republican
front-runner Richard Nixon pre
dicting continued “war on the
streets;’’ it takes Eartha Kitt
bluntly telling Lady Bird John
son that the singer has to say
what is in her heart since she
has lived in the gutters—it takes
only this, and not much more, to
remind concerned Americans
that we still haven’t awakened
to the dimensions of our domes
tic revolt and the urgency of the
crisis.
President Johnson was jight,
of course, when he said we “have
had enough of rising crime and
lawlessness.” But the long list
of recommendations he made for
tightening control against rioters
and other lawless ones will be
of little help if we can’t get the
300,000 new housing starts he
called for and it we don’t get
cracking faster with scores of
improvement on the health, wel
fare, education, and job fronts.
The "restlessness of the nation,”
as Governor Raymond Shafer of
Pennsylvania pointed out the day
after the State of the Union ad
dress, “was not resolved by him.”
Similarly, it is only natural for
Mr. Nixon to forecast “war on
the streets.” The most poorly-
informed among us have the in
sight to do that. But to con
clude, as Mr. Nixon apparently
concludes, that the cloud over
our domestic hliss amounts
merely to racial conflict is to
misjudge and to diagnose wrong
ly the ills that eat us: the threat
is not from blackness, it is from
the decay of our urban institu
tions and from the unconcern of
some of the stewards of those
institutions.
Eartha Kitt broke all the rules
of propriety when she hurled
her bolt of criticism at Mrs.
Johnson. But she did communi
cate, however abrasively. If the
women sick at heart about our
continuing obtuseness in Viet
nam are restrained by law from
carrying their campaign close to
the heart of government, Eartha
Kitt is able (or was able) to
serve as their deputy and emis
sary. She spoke her soul; and
all the crushing humiliation of
racist cruelty giished out. It was
an ugly moment; but the trauma
was good for the country.
And Mrs. Johnson, to her ever
lasting credit, spoke honestly
when she replied: “I have not
lived with' the background that
you have.”
Neither have millions more of
us.
This does not excuse us from
taking fresh inventory. Where
have we failed? Why have we
slumbered? How long shall we
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America, to mid the shame of
poverty, to re-establish regimes
of lawfulness with due regard
for the rights of dissenters and
the not-yet-convicted?
We made a huge promise when
we brought the rural poor into
our cities to run machines. We
made another promise for the
education of those long discrimi
nated against when we broke the
separate - but - equal pattern by
the force of judicial decision.
We who live in the North re
vealed our hypocrisy and the
fragile nature of our interest in
race relations when deprived
Negroes came out of the South
our own white backlash
ted a sharper edge than its
southern counterpart. We
promised decent, safe, sanitary
housing; and we didn’t produce.
We pledged an end of job bias;
and economic discrimination per
sists. We guaranteed massive as
sistance in our schools; and that
goal has not been reached. Our
gains are few; our failures mas
sive.
At the moment, we are running
for cover because the poison of
the new Negro-imposed apart
heid is vitiating our will and
shattering our morale. We stand
by, almost helpless, while sepa
ratist Negroes play out the
quixotic Black Power drama. We
understand what reliable and
profound experts in the field of
race relations say when they tell
us that Negro segregationists are
aping white segregationists and
digging a deep hole with their
anger and their pride, believing
—as Dr. Kenneth B. Clark re
minds us—“in the magic of race
and color.”
But soon there will be no place
for those who run away. Prud
ence even now must dictate that
we return, with renewed de
termination, to the back-breaking
jobs of establishing firmly the
principle of open-occupancy in
housing, developing more ima
ginative ways to train the un
skilled and employ the hard-to-
place, reforming our welfare
operations so that children shall
not be penalized for toe fact of
their birth, assuring toe con
tinuance and improvement of the
Office of Economic Opportunity,
advancing the Freedom Budget,
generating Urban Coalitions, and
prosecuting the war against
Poverty.
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