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Box 16, Folder 5, Document 18
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EDITORIALS OF
_ Ghe Detta Democrat: Cimes
Greenville, ‘Miss., Sunday, September 11, 1966
neta a
-- Were it loft. to me re decide hatter we sionlé have a govern-
giene: without newspapers or newspapers without government, |
should: not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter,
—Thomas dettoreon
The ‘Gero ‘Battle OF A tlonta
"The Student Nonviolent Co-
ordinating Committee~may still
have publie supporters somewhere |
outside the extreme: fringe of the
civil rights\ movement. and
within the ghetto, but they will be
hard to! find’ after the incredibly»
blatant-job of incitement to riot its”
leadership pulled off in Atlanta
last week. The organization’s very
name is now a bad joke, as the
Atlanta _ disgrace
Sending a sound truck into an area
to whip up @ mob against the police
and the city administration can be
put in-many eategories, but “non-
violent” is not one of them,
There is apparently no end to
the lengths SNCC will go in order
to create a suitable climate for its
operations. First its workers went
to great effort to eject whites
working to alleviate poverty from
Negro areas in Atlanta, using the
sound truck technique to smear a
dedicated man they contemptuous-
ly referred to as a “white Jesus.”
Then they helped whip a mob into
the streets, culminating with an
attempt to maul Atlanta Mayor
Ivan Allen as he sought to disperse
the group. Mayor Allen responded
in the only possible way, instruct-
ing the Negro and white police to
break Up the hoodlums with what-
ever foree was necessary.
DB. oo 2?
demonstrated,
IT IS bitter irony that SNCC
should now ehoose Atlanta as the
target for deliberate creation of
civil disorder. No city is perfect, and
deep behind its image of progressivism
Atlanta has troubles like any other
municipality. But again and again
it has been demonstrated there
that Negro and white leadership
could work out accomodations ac-
ceptable to both sides. Mayor Allen
himself was one of the few South-
ern politicians to testify in favor of
the civil rights bill.
But SNCC does not like to see
change proceed in this way. It must
be able to claim complete credit.
Anything done by others is cate-
gorized as sell-outs by Uncle Toms
and “Whitey.” Peaceful change
must be converted into snarling
anarchy.
There is only one answer to that
kind of approach. Mayor Allen uti-
lized it by telling the police to
crack down. Many more respon-
sible Negroes also understood what
damage was being done and work-
ed against SNCC on the street
corners,
Mayor Allen is right. If Car-
michael and Company want to
make Atlanta the new battle-
ground, the fight should begin
now. The time is past when open
invitations to chaos can be tolerat-
ed, in Atlanta or anywhere else,
ted, el
_ Ghe Detta Democrat: Cimes
Greenville, ‘Miss., Sunday, September 11, 1966
neta a
-- Were it loft. to me re decide hatter we sionlé have a govern-
giene: without newspapers or newspapers without government, |
should: not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter,
—Thomas dettoreon
The ‘Gero ‘Battle OF A tlonta
"The Student Nonviolent Co-
ordinating Committee~may still
have publie supporters somewhere |
outside the extreme: fringe of the
civil rights\ movement. and
within the ghetto, but they will be
hard to! find’ after the incredibly»
blatant-job of incitement to riot its”
leadership pulled off in Atlanta
last week. The organization’s very
name is now a bad joke, as the
Atlanta _ disgrace
Sending a sound truck into an area
to whip up @ mob against the police
and the city administration can be
put in-many eategories, but “non-
violent” is not one of them,
There is apparently no end to
the lengths SNCC will go in order
to create a suitable climate for its
operations. First its workers went
to great effort to eject whites
working to alleviate poverty from
Negro areas in Atlanta, using the
sound truck technique to smear a
dedicated man they contemptuous-
ly referred to as a “white Jesus.”
Then they helped whip a mob into
the streets, culminating with an
attempt to maul Atlanta Mayor
Ivan Allen as he sought to disperse
the group. Mayor Allen responded
in the only possible way, instruct-
ing the Negro and white police to
break Up the hoodlums with what-
ever foree was necessary.
DB. oo 2?
demonstrated,
IT IS bitter irony that SNCC
should now ehoose Atlanta as the
target for deliberate creation of
civil disorder. No city is perfect, and
deep behind its image of progressivism
Atlanta has troubles like any other
municipality. But again and again
it has been demonstrated there
that Negro and white leadership
could work out accomodations ac-
ceptable to both sides. Mayor Allen
himself was one of the few South-
ern politicians to testify in favor of
the civil rights bill.
But SNCC does not like to see
change proceed in this way. It must
be able to claim complete credit.
Anything done by others is cate-
gorized as sell-outs by Uncle Toms
and “Whitey.” Peaceful change
must be converted into snarling
anarchy.
There is only one answer to that
kind of approach. Mayor Allen uti-
lized it by telling the police to
crack down. Many more respon-
sible Negroes also understood what
damage was being done and work-
ed against SNCC on the street
corners,
Mayor Allen is right. If Car-
michael and Company want to
make Atlanta the new battle-
ground, the fight should begin
now. The time is past when open
invitations to chaos can be tolerat-
ed, in Atlanta or anywhere else,
ted, el
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