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Negro £ditor Urges
Put First Things First
(Editor** Notai Thl* thought* | fol article, by tin* editor of The Tele*ram, a n«w*paper for No* •rocs published in Newark, NJ. appeared in condensed fora In the Roanoke Times, and in the Richmond News Leader. It sum* up, so admirably, an intelligent and patient approach to the so* lotion of racial problems that we commend it warmly to allow readers.)
By Davis Lee
The more I travel, listen and observe, the more convinced I become that the Negro has been grossly misled in this matter of integration and civil rights.
It appears to me that the first things should come first, and that our economic .well being is of greater sigificance than the pri'ilege or right to attend a white school or to- associate with white people on an equal ocial basis pro* vided by Supreme Court decisions and pressure legislation.
As a Negro, and an American, I naturally want to see my race enjoy every right, privilege and opportunity enjoyed by any other American, but I am opposed to any type of agitation designed to deprive the other fellow of a right to be associated his own kind exclusively, if he desires. I would like to reserve such a right for myself and definitely would not want it encroached upon by a Supreme Court edict or any other kind of interference.
The right granted to one or two Negroes in Virginia or some other Southern State to enter a State graduate school is of no benefit to the millions of our people who are in need of the bare necessities of ife, and when the fortunately situated members of the race conduct such campaigns of agitation for selfish gain, the needy masses suffer.
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