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ae ree eetmrtnteah eee tema cart Baste anne a mh enna a cmt Rt the bitter fact remains that the colored American knows he will not get a better job for being better educated and better housed or for having in his childhood more playgrounds. He will not be given an equal chance with the white American of his class and ability. Race prejudice will still deny democracy to him. : Are we Americans to go on accepting the stupidities of \ race prejudice? I know of the oft-repeated wearisome defgnse. Intermarriage is the fearful specter kehind everything On - - ee sc there is but one answer. Are we to deny to 12,000,000 ee ataetaneneeaeen maaan / Americans the rights and priviliges of our country, and are we to risk our very democracy itself, by maintaining 2 determined ruler-subject relationship between white and { colored, because some day a few white and colored indi- ‘viduals may choose to marry each other? \ Is democracy right or is it wrong? If it is right, then let us dare to make it true. Perkasie, Pa., November 14, 1941. . . . i “ 1 ae , fd. "re be rag, J leg “Ye het te ayd ~~ me Verne ume tyne Lgree When (Reprinted from THE NEW YORK TIMES, November i 1941) \ - . ; a’? ~ es nase yeas ‘ager edt a aria a are