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THE COLORED MAN'S CROSS
Alabama Editor Says South Can
Solve Its Own Problem
By
the Associate Press
The Charlotte Observer
(December
16, 1956)
There is a widely held opinion in the South and it is a
fundamental of the States' Rights belief--that the region if
left alone can solve its race problem and that people in other
sections, especially the North, should get their own glass
houses in order before casting stones.
This opinion long has been meat for an editorial campaign
by Grover Hall, editor of the Montgomery, (Ala.) Advertiser.
Hall, a dapper, 41-year-old bachelor with a deep sense of
tradition, was asked about the general thinking of southerners.
You have to start with two essential points', he said.
'You have to start with the disagreeable fact that to have been
born a colored man is a misfortune.
"It is," said Hall, "the colored man's
cross to bear. It is an uneven struggle for him."
"The second thing is that the white people of the
South--in their morality, ethics and character--are not
different from the westerner or easterner.
"To debate that the southerner is so different in
character and ethics as to allow him to brutalize the Negro is
preposterous."
"Hall was asked whether he thought the southerners'
feeling about the Negro amounted to just plain prejudice.
"Of course it is prejudice," he said, and added
he thought failure to recognize it would be highly
irresponsible.
Hall contends that "if you stand the present
generation Negro alongside his grandfather, the present
generation has made a dramatic change. A person certainly is a
fool to argue that their progress is stopped by
segregation."
Asked if social segregation wouldn't work as well as
legal segregation, Hall replied frankly, "To the white
southerner the idea of surrendering legal segregation is a great
point. He has it and is reluctant to give
it up.
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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