Independence Day, 1950 p.6

Independence Day, 1950 p.6

This week the Nation celebrates its 174 independence anniversary. But denial of individual rights and freedoms in America is enough to put the guarantors of Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness to shame. The starring role played by the Federal Government in this highjacking of the Bill of Rights is a disgrace to the Founding Fathers. Like we told you last week, white 4-H’ers had a national fling on the Federal houe,(sic)hobnobbing with everyone from President Truman and State Department biggies back. But colored 4-H’ers will have to bring up the rear with a “regional” meet at Virginia State College, August 8-15, with M.L. Wilson, U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Director as highest Ranking Federal official they’ll see. Irony of this fact that Wilson’s a party to this. Now we’ve been for Claude Barnett and Fred Patterson, advisors to the Agriculture Secretary, to challenge this deal for a long time, but so far we haven’t heard a peep. Weighing this brazen high-handedness with taxpayers’ money makes it easier to believe that the Ku Klux Klan’s not talking through it’s hat when it claims 350 recruits in the Nation's capital can be signed up at the dropping of a bed sheet. America will fulfill her guarantees of individual liberty only when in the word of Senator Graham it is a “place where democracy is achieved without vulgarity, where differences exist without hate, where the majority is without tyranny and the minority without fear, where least of our brethren have the freedom to struggle for freedom, where respect for the past is not reaction and hope for the future is not revolution. It could be a happy holiday if Americans North, South, East and West started JUMPIN STEADY for constitutional guarantees equally applied to all Americans. But they won’t, so get set for more head-cracking, meanwhile salt your dough in U.S. Savings bonds.

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Chicago Defender

1950-7-8