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1 /, RIOTS IN ENGLAND ) *
It i« a great temptation for us in America, and particularly in the Southland, to emote smugly orithe race riots in England. The British are supposed to be suelr civilized peou:pie. And then, they have been so highly critical of our rac- '' ial disturbances, from Autherine Lucy to Little Rock. Now on their own front doorstep, they have been presented with race riots of a violence never known in the Southern United. States, and seldom in the North.
There is, however, little satisfaction in beng smug about ’ anybody’s trouMes. We feel sorry for the Englsh. We can appreciate the difficulty of their problem. What should be ■:v>' the solution, we cannot say. Surely in a country where there are only four colored to every thousand whites, the i problem is not the same as in acountry where the colored people comprise 25 to 50 percent of the total population. If the problem is not the same, then the solution is likely to Jje different . ; ' . j‘ . ’ This we do khow; that as the race question varies from section to section, it can only be solved on a-local basis. The English~are finding this out. It is Still not too late for the people in states- north of us to discover the same thing. ' , B.C.B.-Jr. ' V
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