The Battalion
Page 2 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1956
‘Her Kind’ or Mankind?
A controversial man of the earlier part of this century
was avoided by the people of his hometown because of his
beliefs. Not that he was much of a scoundrel, even though
earlier in his life he had been what one might term a “rabid
reformer.”
But he had a great love for and a faith in mankind. He
didn’t believe that this country had yet attained the prom
ised land of democracy for all men. Why, he even dared to
say:
“While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a
criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am
not free.”
Society had no room for this man.
Today, not many of such men are left. Those who are
still with us from an earlier era of high hopes for mankind
have, for the most part, capitulated to the external pres
sures of society—to the vested interests that apparently
believe that history—a relentlessly changing, evolving world
—has come, or should come, to a stop.
But among the forces that still believe “all men are
equal” has come another man. His skin, it is true, is of a
different color from that of the whites. But even the most
bigoted have to admit that he, the Negro, is a human being.
And he, as a human being, feels that he has a place.
Some persons do not feel that this man has a place—a
place that a Supreme Court decision could only recognize,
not bestow.
So, he will have to fight for his place.
Many persons didn’t think that the Emancipation Proc
lamation meant the end of slavery. And, even up through
modern times, in some ways it hasn’t.
And a lot of persons do not believe that the Supreme
Court’s decision means the end of segregation. And it won’t
for quite a long time.
So, the fight will continue, a fight that might be termed
an attempt to end speaking of the Negro as “his” or “her
kind” and start people to thinking of them as part of man
kind.
— Bill Fullerton
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Letters to the Editor
Editor, The Battalion:
I’d like to ask you some ques
tions in reference to your editorial
“Alabama Mob.” Did you ever have
a deep thought? Did you ever look
behind the headlines? Yours is a
typical pseudo-intellectual article
of the type that has been appearing
in Northern newspapers for 100
years. Well, the Yankees that think
like you have finally gotten their
wishes. What were the results?
Nothing but a chain of bloody ra
cial riots and a few mixed mar
riages, the offspring of which are
the beginning of a mongrel race.
These are the results of pushing a
race into the limelight when it is
not even ready for the shadows.
As the old saying goes, you can’t
squeeze blood out of a beet. A
point to illustrate this is the fact
that there have been only three
Negro governments in the history
A&M Fliers Plan
To Enter Air Meet
The Texas A&M Flying Club has
been invited to take part in the
National Intercollegiate Flying As
sociation’s annual air meet to be
held in May at Norman, Okla.
Definite plans have not been
made as to how many Aggies will
attend, according to Edward E.
Rivers Jr., club president.
About 20 colleges and universi
ties from all parts of the nation
are expected to participate in this
year’s contest.
The meet is sponsored by several
major companies in the aviation in
dustry. Awards are given for pow
er-on and power-off spot landings,
bomb-dropping, and cross-country
navigation problems.
Five members of A&M’s “Flying
Kadets” attended the meet in Fort
Worth last May. They scored a
high number of points at last
year’s meet even though they had
never before flown in a contest.
With this experience behind them,
the Kadets are hoping to carry off
their share of awards this year.
WEDNESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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of the world—all three were dismal
failures.
It has long been a dream of man
kind to make all men equal—in
spite of nature. Tell me, do you
actually think that Autherine Lucy
wants to go to Alabama Univer
sity? Doesn’t it seem logical to
you that she would want to attend
a school with her own kind ? This
is only human nature. ‘
Now to get down to the roots of
the whole trouble. Just who do
you think is encouraging Autherine
to go to Alabama U. ? I say it’s
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
Who do you think will pay for the
court trial which Autherine de
mands? Surely not the poor, pen
niless, oppressed coed. I say it’s
the N.A.A.C.P. Who do you think
raised such a great row that the
Supreme Court itself was practi
cally forced to overthrow its “sep
arate but equal” doctrine, which
it had upheld foi" decades ? I say
the N.A.A.C.P. Do you realize that
this vast program for desegrega
tion has cost the N.A.A.C.P. mil
lions of dollars ? Where did this
money come from ? Surely not
from the American Negroes. It
would have to come from a group
far more wealthy and powerful.
I say it is the Communist Party.
Don’t yell “McCarthyism.” Sui-ely
even you, Fullerton, would not be
so blind, stupid and naive to believe
that there are no subversive activi
ties going on in the United States
and especially in the most unlikely
suspected organizations. Perhaps
now it becomes clear to you that
the Alabama incident is exactly
what the Communists want. No
doubt Autherine is already a mar
tyr in Moscow and all of Russia’s
sattelites. This is in part what
you said in your article, only you
were so unbelievably naive as to
have overlooked the real cause and
therefore blame the wrong people.
Don’t write editorials blasting your
fellow Americans at Alabama U.
That is merely a waste of paper
and encourages the recent rapidly
widening gap between the races,
the very thing against which you
are preaching.
Don’t fight the results, fight the
cause! Serve your country by help
ing to uncover the many subver
sive Communist activities that
threaten the continuance of the
freedom and Christianity of all men
—colored as well as white.
James P. M. Syler, ’57
(Ed. note: This all sounds like
the script to the motion picture
“Trial.”)
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