The Shout Heard Around the World #2
The reply of whites was so loud and clear that it was heard around the world.
When segregation in schools and residences was outlawed throughout the
United States, whites fled from the cities to the suburbs just as though a
Plague had struck, or some deadly disease was spreading.
The Blacks were left alone in the cities, now called ghettoes or the “inner city.”
This was rejection, total complete.
The Black youth of America got this message from the whites first, and they got it quickly.
They formed new battle lines.
Several millions of “middle class” Negroes and their leaders have not received the message yet, and probably never will.
For them the white man is the ship and all else is the sea. They themselves do not feel competent to develop the highest standards of life in All-Black communities created by the very whites they so much worship.
For them there can be no “quality education” unless, by hook or crook, some white faces, any kind of white faces, are in the classrooms.
Their main drive is to force the fleeing whites to accept them or “Please, O you superior people, allow us to bus some of our children to your schools!”
As they achieve these hollow victories on the integration front, they add a new cry:
“Give us racial balance!”These Negroes have neither the ethnic pride nor the self-respect that is so characteristic of the American Indians, Japanese and Chinese;
And they seem utterly insensitive to being openly rejected by the whites, and battle on with the fantastic idea that they can force the whites to accept them socially.
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