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THE MAN WHO STOLE A CONTINENT

BY JOHN M. WEATHERWAX

COVER: Coat-of-Arms of the slave trader Sir John Hawkins_

The John Henry and Mary Louisa Dunn Bryant Foundation

Los Angeles 29, California

Copyright, 1963, by The John Henry and Mary Louisa Dulin Bryant Foundation.

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December, 1963. .25

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There was a man who stole a continent.

Being cruel as well as greedy, and pos­

sessing power, he enslaved twenty million

of its people, sending them over the ocean

-ten million to the Eastern Hemisphere

and ten million to the Western Hemis­

phere.

In the process of capturing the twenty

million people whom he sold, eighty mil­

lion other people died-some during slave

raids (for when a village was raided, often

the very young and very old and the sick

were killed), some from exposure, disease

and grief during shipment abroad, and

some by suicide at the water's edge or in

transit.

The sale of twenty million human be­

ings as slaves gave the man hundreds of

millions of treasure. But this was only the

start of his enrichment.

He and his children and grandchildren

and those to whom they sold slaves re­

ceived much, much more (many billions

more) through the unpaid labor of whole

generations of slaves. But this, too, was not

at all the end of their enrichment.

After emancipation from chattel slavery,

thousands of millions of additional dollars

were received by the man's children and

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grandchildren and the other former slave­

holders, through a practice of paying the

descendants of slatJes on the average only

one-half the wages received by whites.

(This practice is continued to this day,

made easy because most descendants of

slaves are distinguishable from other peo­

ple by their color.)

And so, from these three sources- ( 1 )

the sale of slaves, (2) the unpaid labor of

generations of slaves, and (3) the practice

of paying (on the average) a half-wage to

descendants of slaves-there was, over the

years, a tremendous, almost uncountable,

accumulation of wealth.

The quantity of this stupendous treasure

is now so immense that banks in every city

of the land, and underground vaults for the

storage of gold, are required to house and

guard it.

Although this treasure-every penny of

it-has been squeezed from the very hearts

of blacks, absolute control and disposition

of it is in the hands of whites.

And even though an ocean of blood was

spilled by The Man Who Stole a Conti­

nent, and even though agony and heart­

break for millions of innocents was the

"gift" to humanity of his slaveholder de-

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scendants, and even though the half-wage

system today means poverty and lack of

opportunity and despair and unnecessary

disease and earlier death for millions upon

millions of descendants of slaves right now,

the beneficiaries of this ethically upside­

down world would not dream of making

restitution to anyone! By failing to do so­

in fact by simply refusing to equalize wages

- they are able to stifle the hopes and

crush the aspirations of millions of people.

And because (when wages, or rent, or

interest, or profits or property are con­

cerned) they have accustomed themselves

to separate Cause from Effect, they see

nothing immoral in their actions. They

can and do establish wage levels for mil­

lions which will not permit the family of

the wage-worker to have proper nutrition;

and then they blame their action on "com­

petition" or "the market" or "prices"­

whereas the legislatures which they control

could establish minimum wage levels at a

level which would make proper nutrition

possible. More: they could, if they wished,

equalize with a federal government check

at the end of each year, every income below

the national average. Or guarantee to

descendants of slaves medical-dental treat-

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ment equal to that now available to whites.

Or pay reparations to the descendants of

slaves (since the "property" -that is, the

labor, of the slaves was stolen from them) .

But programs to equalize the economic

status of descendants of slaves and the rest

of the population are brushed off as "not

their concern."

The accumulation of this fabulous

wealth made it possible for The Man Who

Stole a Continent and his children and

grandchildren to build railroads and

bridges and tunnels, mines and oil wells

and lumber mills, power plants and office

buildings and factories, farm machinery

and grain siloes and canneries which made

the exploitation of other continents and

other peoples easier.

Besides, all of the favored managers of

these enterprises, and especially the owners

thereof, were able to have many homes,

even palaces, many automobiles, many ser­

vants, and the luxury of jet travel at the

dictate of a whim.

The finest hotels, the most able doctors,

the best office suites, were at their com­

mand.

Professors holding degrees from the old­

est universities, research scientists and tech-

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nicians with highly developed skills and

insights and training, were instant to do

their bidding, for each of the man's chil­

dren and grandchildren waved a wand of

gold.

But the management and safeguarding

of this immense wealth brought with it

many problems. The mere presence in one

country alone of twenty million descend­

ants of slaves (to say nothing of one hun­

dred fifty million other people), greatly

outnumbering the numerically small group

of those who were the inheritors of The

Treasure, was disquieting and at times even

alarming to the children and grandchildren

of the Man Who Stole a Continent, and

their close associates.

To preserve "law and order" and thus

prevent any open challenge to their con­

trol of The Treasure, the children and

grandchildren and their political experts

devised a system of police, courts and pris­

ons, which dealt with any who stole from

them, or who organized demonstrations or

uprisings against them. Those who organ­

ized revolutions against them were severely

dealt with.

To assist the police, courts and prisons

( especially in periods when criticism of the

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Administrators of The Treasure was loud) , 1

there were repressive laws and ordinances

and procedures, together with a variety of

oaths that the people were compelled to

swear to, investigating committees, and

threats of job-loss for the more vocal or

active critics.

Worried by the extent, the sharpness

and the accuracy of criticism, and by the

persistence and ingenuity of the critics, the

children and grandchildren of The Man

Who Stole a Continent quietly prepared

concentration camps in the mountains and

deserts at out-of-the-way places. These

were for the forcible detention of any

large-scale protesting groups which might

get out-of-hand. In preparation for such

eventualities, dogs were trained by police

in scores of cities, and practice use of these

dogs was resorted to in breaking up local

demonstrations.

All of the people who served the inter­

ests of the Administrators of The Treasure,

including all those who did a variety of

public duties necessary for the operation of

a large and complex society, were called

"public servants."

No less than two million "public ser­

vants" were on the payrolls in a single

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country, the main headquarters country of

the Administrators. And since the descend­

ants of The Man Who Stole a Continent

were too smart and clever to payout of

their own pockets the wages of this huge

army of civil and military "servants," they

proposed an "income tax" through which

(by the simple device of withholding

wages) they were able to take money every

day from the pockets of every worker in

the land; thus the burden 'of paying the

vast army of civil and military "servants"

fell not on those who "owned" and con­

trolled The Treasure, but on the ordinary

man and woman, already overburdened

with living expenses. Yet it was they, the

"owners," the Administtators of The Treas­

ure, whose pocket-picking system was

watched over and cared for by courts and

police; it was they who were the chief ben­

eficiaries of the complex operations carried

on by the two million "public servants."

Without these servants they ·could not

have carried on for a day the huge job of

distributing the products of their factories;

managing credit, monthly billings, adver­

tising mailings; keeping up the roads,

patrolling them; guarding warehouses; col­

lecting customs duties, and so on. The

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Administrators preferred to have all these

services paid for mainly by someone other

than themselves.

Because rubber was needed from the

tropics for automobile and truck tires; and

vegetable oils were needed for soaps and

cosmetics; and gold and diamonds were

needed for adornment and for industry;

and uranium was needed for the making

of atom bombs, free access by The Admin­

istrators to the resources of the world was

a key need of the Top Brass.

Therefore, systems of international law,

including treaties, agreements, conferences,

world courts and world forums for the ex­

pression of opinion, had to be devised. But

since the gentlemen and ladies of the Top

Bracket were unable to rely on instant

obedience from such bodies (which often

included even relatives of those killed in

the original slave raids), the Administra­

tors had several armies, navies and air com­

mands under their absolute control.

But these bodies were often used on

loan, asit were, to the government or sov­

ereigns of other countries, to enable those

countries or sovereigns to crush and hold

in check those who did not wish to be mere

appendages of another power.

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Special bodies of armed men, called

"Guards," were used to reinforce local po­

lice bodies in keeping "law and order"

( that is, in repressing demonstrations

against The Establishment). "Force and

violence" was decried; except that an un­

limited amount of "force and violence"

could be used, and was used, by representa­

tives of The Administrators. That also

made it nice for The Administrators, for

all the force was on one side-their side.

The Man Who Stole a Continent was

sanctimonious.

It had been his practice to carry a Bible

in one hand and a Gun in the other. His

descendants learned this lesson well; but

desiring to avoid direct use of force wher­

ever possible, they early saw to it that the

churches and the schools were used to pro­

mulgate value systems that (once they

were in the minds of the ruled) would

tend to discourage any seriou~ challenging

of The Establishment's ways of doing

things.

Everything tending to develop blindness

to one's own best interests was encouraged

through these channels. Meekness was

praised. The virtues of being a good servant

were extolled. Obedience to authority, re-

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gardless of whether that authority was hon­

est, or good, or humane, was presented as

a Great Virtue; and conversely, those who

challenged authority were labelled

"Trouble-makers," "Subversives," and

"Reds" -even though many of those who

cbllenged authority quite obviously were

blacks, and many who sought redress of

grievances quite obviously were trying hard

to avoid causing "trouble" by teaching

their followers the techniques of non­

violence.

But it was not alone in the worlds of

ethics and politics that The Establishment

was supreme.

People were taught to eat food that had

been poisoned by deadly sprays; they were

constantly urged to smoke cigarettes in the

face of scientific evidence . that smokers

much more frequently than non-smokers

get lung cancer; they were propagandized

into. thinking that drinking stupefying

liquors was socially the thing to do; and

they were encouraged to get into needless

debt, thus making them work and study

and plan on how to get out of debt instead

of on how to achieve a 1'ational society

functioning in the interests of humanity.

Most important of all, people were

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taught to take into their minds ideas and

concepts poisoned by prejudice, hatred, sus­

picion, fear and doubt. For with every

passing decade it had become more and

more obvious to the children and grand­

children of The Man Who Stole a Conti­

nent that such attitudes and moods among

the people was the best possible means of

preventing the descendants of the slaves

(as well as the poorer whites) from unit­

ing against their oppressors.

And so, on a street named after an early

President, hundreds upon hundreds of

offices worked the clock around, and from

season to season and year to year, setting

region against region, city groups against

people from the countryside, men against

women, children against their elders, black

against white, and each national group

against the descendants of other national

groups. The, foreign born were pitted

against the native born, unorganized labor

against organized labor, and the educa~ed

against the uneducated. Even those who

lived on one side of the railroad tracks were

taught to hate and fear those who lived on

the other side.

Films, radio and television with subtle­

ness insinuated these concepts into their

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product; fashion and society enforced

them; almost every social organization was

encouraged to have its own "standards" by

which all but a minute proportion of the

population would be excluded.

l'he purpose of all this was to fragment

society, to encourage division, to prevent

the ordinary people from achieving unity;

for The Establishment correctly perceived

that unity down below would mean a

speedy end to The Establishment's ability

to deceive, and hence to rule; hence, an end

to The Establishment itself, and the begin­

ning of rational cooperation instead of

selfish greed as the motivating force in

government.

The school and church promulgators of

the value system of the Power Structure

were especially sensitive to certain words.

Advocates of "socialism" or "communism"

automatically became social lepers .. And

those who wished merely to have an honest

debate on the merits of such systems versus

the "enterprise" system of The Power

Structure, became economic outcasts. Al­

though the postal system and certain large­

scale electrification projects were examples

of the value of public ownership of certain

services, advocacy of "nationalization" of

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banks or railways or insurance companies

was regarded as near-treason, and such ad­

vocates could hold no job in any bank,

railway or insurance company.

Because the children and grandchildren

of The Man Who Stole a Continent had

the requisite money and power, they were

able to retain control over the policies of

newspapers, magazines, television stations,

radio programs and other media useful in

creating and shaping public opinion.

They did this in various ways, such as

by outright stock ownership, by loans, by

advertising, by licenses, sources of paper,

sources of talent, monopoly of channels,

etc.

Through blacklists, loyalty checks and

other devices for pe.rsonnel control, serious

critics of The Order were eliminated.

Through campaign gifts to both parties,

the Top Bracket people always had plenty

of spokesmen in the highest law-making

bodies, and usually sent one of their own

number to sit in the seat of highest power

in the government.

A Senator from one of the Dakotas, for

instance, could sit in the Senate for life

simply through being backed by one of the

main families of The Establishment. It was

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very nice for the politicians, who showed

their deep gratitude by voting as The Estab­

lishment wished on all key measures; The

Establishment showed its gratitude by

allowing them all the latitude, all the

"personal freedom" they wished regarding

lesser legislation.

In emergencies, highly "controversial"

(i.e., critical) bills could be "lost in com­

mittee" or could be "filibustered" to death.

New "studies" of civil rights violations

could be made; new "reports" could be

awaited as excuses for postponing action.

By such measures, by such devices and

procedures and strategems, the children

and grandchildren of The Man Who Stole

a Continent were able to keep everybody

"in line."

Well, almost everybody.

For with the passage of time, new gen­

erations of people had arisen on The Con­

tinent That Had Been Stolen. They were

needed by The Establishment to work in

the mines, to tend the plantations, to run

the railroads and man the hydroelectric

plants that The Establishment "owned"

(that is, purchased with their inheritance

from the robberies committed by The

Man Who Stole a Continent).

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But those in the diamond mines grew

weary of digging and grubbing for, and

finding, diamonds that they and their

women could never wear; and those in the

gold mines became bitter about handing

the gold they dug to their employers and

getting dust and dirt in wages while the

owners lived in palaces.

In the central part of the Continent,

those who worke.d in the rubber planta­

tions, recalling the days when the hands of

children were cut off because they did not

bring in enough rubber, and discontented

with their current wages, decided to estab­

lish a government of their own, and did.

In the northern ~part of the Continent,

those who worked in the oilfields of one

of the biggest countries of that area, cut

off the flow of oil to The Power Structure,

took up arms, and in a few years won

internal self-rule - fighting during those

years against the biggest and best-equipped

armies the children and grandchildren of

The Man Who Stole a Continent could

send against them.

In near-pamc, the Power Structure

began to devise "formulas" for independ­

ence that would permit them (The Estab­

lishment) to retain indirect control.

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"If you will let us keep the portfolios

of Foreign Relations, and Defense, and

Finance, we will give you all else," they

argued. Many who listened to their talk

thought "half a loaf is better than no

bread," and these people agreed to accept

a sort of half-rule.

"Let us be Partners," said the spokesmen

of one of the National Branches of the

Power Structure - addressing national

groups under their domination. "Let us

call ourselves a Community, and be happy

together." And so many of the countries

desiring Freedom took that route, knowing

that the so-called "Community" (with a

white-dominated country of another con­

tinent to the north in control of both

money and guns) was scarcely "Independ­

ence." But it at least appeared to be some­

thing better than they had before.

"Let us be Partners," sang the spokes­

men of another National Branch of the

Power Structure to their colonies. "Let us

call ourselves a Commonwealth. Let us

share and share alike; let us Share-the­

Wealth, Hold-the-Wealth, in Common.

Common Wealth, don't you see? Let us

help one another in True Brotherhood and

Be Happy." And so a number of the coun-

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tries desiring Freedom took that route,

knowing that the so-called "Common­

wealth" (with another white-dominated

country of the continent to the north in

control of communication, transport, bank­

ing, and industry) was scarcely "Inde­

pendence." But it, too, was regarded as a

way-station, a very big step forward toward

true Independence; and it certainly was

much better than they had before.

Of course, The Establishment did every­

thing it could to win support for the fiction

that "Community" and "Commonwealth"

were Freedom, were V huru. For above all,

The Establishment could not afford to

break the flow of precious raw materials

to its own shores by having any contrary

thought take root.

The Establishment was somewhat in

disarray, it was somewhat shaken, during

the process of letting go even partially of

over thirty countries. But it was not dis­

mayed, for it still held control of major

world finance centers, communication lines,

air-Iand-and-sea transport networks, trade

distribution channels and armed forces.

The Establishment was jolted, but was very

far from unseated.

Meanwhile, noting with happiness the

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success of their distant relatives in attain­

ing a considerable measure of self-rule, the

descendants of the slaves in the Western

Hemisphere began to shake off the illu­

sions, the fictions, the misconceptions, that had kept them "in line" for so long.

They began to "demonstrate."

Starting with a bus boycott in a Southern

state, followed by sit-ins at soda fountains

1n another Southern state, participation in

-.the struggle spread. Soon Freedom Riders

were turning up in many key cities, chal­

lenging directly the hallowed institution

,known as "Segregation." Some of their

buses were overturned and burnt; and they

(the non-violents) were imprisoned, many

being beaten. There were stand-ins, wade­

.ins, sleep-ins. There were larger and larger

demonstrations; and arrests by the hun-.

,dreds began to take place. Children and

. grown people were knocked down on the

streets with streams of water from fire-

i ,hoses. Police dogs tore at the arms and'

legs and throats of demonstrators. But

none of these stopped the demonstrators.

The largest and strongest of the national

'organizations of the descendants of the

slaves were before long drawn into the

; protest, which had at last become nation-

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wide.

A courageous and able local represen­

tative of the biggest of these organizations,

in a Southern city, was shot in the back and

killed from ambush by a person who took

seriously the doctrines of white supremacy.

His own values having been warped and

twisted by these doctrines, he saw nothing

wrong with an action which earned him

the contempt of decent human beings

throughout the world.

But these warped values had not been

created by him. They had been created and

fostered by The Man Who Stole a Con­

tinent and his children and grandchildren

and agents, who found them useful tools

through which to silence the voices of the

oppressed.

Children attending Sunday School were

dynamited .

It must be noted that the moral sense

of The Man Who Stole a Continent, as

well as the moral sense of his children and

grandchildren and agents, was not only

warped but perverted.

Nowhere is this fact better shown than

in the attitudes of all of them toward prop­

erty - especially toward "their property."

The Man Who Stole a Continent justi-

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fied his seizures of land and people by

stating that he was bringing progress to a

Dark Continent, and was "rescuing" bar­

barians from paganism, thus was "saving

souls" that would otherwise burn in hell.

He claimed, when his voice could be heard

above the wails of the people he was

destroying, that he was bringing enlighten­

ment and civilization to a backward land.

Never mind that so-called "pagans" had

developed the very alphabet he himself

used; never mind that the very numbers he

used to total his profits came to his country

by way of the "Dark Continent." Never

mind that sciences like medicine developed

there for thousands of years before the

people of his country emerged from club­

swinging and cave-dwelling. Never mind

that a murderer-such as he was-could

not possibly save any soul, not even his

own. Never mind that the "enlighten­

ment" he brought was disease and slavery,

death and destruction to every people he

came into contact with. Never mind that

the "progress" he brought was a steady

retrogression: a lowering from year to year

of all standards of living, whether in hous­

ing, health, employment, family life or

child welfare. Never mind that he brought

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a corroding of spiritual values, a steady

lowering of moral values, both private and

public; a withering beyond tears of the

very souls of millions upon millions of

the people of The Continent He Stole.

No wonder they revolted against further

rule by the children· and grandchildren of

The Man Who Stole a Continent. No

wonder that most of them have little or

no use for the Great White Father, nor

for his progeny, and are determined to rid

themselves of the last remaining shackles

of his era, in order to stand Free, Sovereign

and Equal among all the other peoples of

the world.

In the Western Hemisphere, the chil­

dren and grandchildren of The Man Who

Stole a Continent justified their use of

slaves by saying that slaves were "prop­

erty" and that the "owner" of such "prop­

erty" could do with it as he liked. Thus

they justified lashing, mutilating, burning,

lynching and plain murder. Thus they justi­

fied the breakup of families, selling whom­

ever they wished "down the river" - as the

eloquent phrase of that period put it. Thus

they justified sleeping with another man's

wife, and thus they justified selling as

slaves their own children from such unions.

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But one day a great Civil War raged.

The President of the North, after two

fruitless years of warfare, saw that the war

would end either with a stalemate, or with

victory for the South. Fearful lest the

· North should lose, the Civil War President

was reluctantly forced to agree to put

300,000 former slaves and descendants of

slaves into service. Some 200,000 fought

in the army and navy of the North; some

100,000 built fortifications, roads, bridges,

and served as wagoneers, camp cooks,

· scouts, spies, and servants to officers. The

· addition of the 300,000 blacks made vic­

tory for the North possible, as the Presi-

· dent himself made plain and clear on

numerous public occasions.

But sadly, the President who had or­

dered the Emancipation of the Slaves was

murdered soon after the surrender of the

chief military leader of the slaveholders.

His murderer was an embittered white

supremacist who was assisted by other

white supremacists of both the North and

the South.

Into the dead President's shoes stepped

a man who favored the slaveholders - a

man who adopted a policy called "Restora­

tion" - that is, the Restoration of the Plan-

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tations to the Former Slaveholders.

In the two highest law-making bodies

of the land, however, there were men who

had the :courage to insist that the former

slaves be accorded the full equality that was

their due. They wrote and passed the Re­

construction Laws which set the country on

the track to Democracy. They even tried

the Restoration President, attempting his

impeachment, losing their effort by only

one vote.

For eight years the former slaves and

the descendants of slaves had the vote in

the eleven Southern states-the years which

history calls the Reconstruction Period.

They accomplished so many great things,

such as starting the public school system

which we have today, that the descendants

of The Man Who Stole a Continent were

afraid they themselves would never get

back into power on a state level in the

South unless they forcibly removed the

former slaves from office.

And so these advocates of "white supre­

macy" said "Good-bye" to morality, and

"Welcome" to murder.

Through intimidation, beatings, arson,

fraud and deceit they cut down the voting

registers.-and prevented the descendants of

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former slaves from going to the polls. By

flaying people to death in the public square,

and by burning people to death at huge

spectacles attended by women and chil­

dren, and by organizing five thousand re­

corded lynchings, plus many thousands of

unrecorded dumpings into sloughs, throat­

cuttings and stabbings in the dead of night,

hidden snipings and untold numbers of

merciless mutilations, the "white suprem­

acists" served faithfully the presumed

"best interests" of the children and grand­

children of The Man Who Stole a Conti­

nent. ( "Would you want your daughter to

marry a black man?" was one of the stock

questions asked by supporters of the sys­

tem who "deplored" violence yet made it

possible for it to continue, thus themselves

being implicated. Another question they

asked was "Don't you want white civiliza­

tion to continue?" Another was: "But are

they really ready for the vote?" )

And the children and grandchildren of

The Man Who Stole a Continent, sitting

in state courts as judges, and in governors'

chairs, backed up the bloody-handed "pa­

triots" by freeing them when they were

caught, praising them and the South's "pe­

culiar institution," rewarding them, and

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supporting in every possible way the rule

at local police and sheriff levels of the most

brutal, the most callous and the most un­

principled elements to be found in areas

specializing in unprincipled, callous and

brutal acts.

Of course there were occasional twinges

of conscience.

Here and there an official might say

some kind words about the descendants of

slaves. But such officials were not re­

elected; very well-financed opposition to

their candidacy at re-election time would

suddenly turn up, and they would as sud­

denly find themselves out of a job.

Even a President or two made public

statements, forceful statements, demanding

that his Party live up to its campaign

pledges on Equality.

But such words were a long way from

the deeds at local levels which would mean

a change in race and class relations at those

levels, where change must of necessity

come if Words are to be transformed into

Action.

And the Supreme Court took many

excellent stands on Equality. But in the

administration of the law there are many

loopholes for those who want them. Six

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years after the decision outlawing "separate

but equal" schools, six per cent of the

South's schools were integrated; eight years

after the decision, eight per cent of the

South's schools were integrated. At that

rate of progress, a hundred years could pass

before that one aspect of Southern life-the

school system - could be integrated. And

what about all-black schools in Northern

and \Vestern cities, based onghettces?

Again, it took over twenty thousand

armed men to place one colored student in

a famous old university in an infamous old

state. At that rate, it is conceivable that if enough people of the old slave stock were

to register for entrance in the colleges of

the South, there might well be not enough

soldiers to go around.

And when three little girls of African

descent are, after heartbreaking struggle,

"admitted" to a formerly lily-white public

school in a Southern city, is that school

really "integrated"? And has there been

any change in the basic attitudes, in the

morality, of the community in which that

school is located?

But what of the whole character of life

in a divided land? Who will look at that

life as a whole and find the answers to

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today's burning questions of real equality

and of national unity?

Can the spirit of the nation ever be

cleansed of the filth in which that spirit

has moved for almost three and a half

centuries?

Can the heart of a nation change? - a

nation which to this day denies the vote to

three out of every four black adults of vot­

ing age; a nation which to this day counte­

nances the system by which descendants of

slaves receive wages, on the average, half

that of whites?

Who will make the nation look at itself

-who will make it characterize itself justly,

accurately?

And who will live, in a society which

spawns ambushers, to lead the nation back

to brotherhood, to cooperation, to equality,

to democracy-the real thing?

All of this-and much, much more-is

the legacy of The Man Who Stole a Conti­

nent.

It is a legacy of crimes committed­

crimes so numerous and so terrible as to

defy even listing.

It is a legacy of corruption on a giant

scale; a legacy of greed unbelievable.

It is a legacy of corroding, all-pervading

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immorality. It is a legacy of a pattern of life which

could please only one being: Satan. And yet it is a legacy which has been

(even down to today) zealously defended

by the children and grandchildren of The

Man Who Stole a Continent. Those children and grandchildren even

today assert in loudest tones their "right"

to the stolen wealth they inherited; their

"right" to the unpaid labor of generations

of slaves; their "right" to steal half of the

wages of the descendants of slaves today.

Such a morality is the morality of Satan.

Perhaps The Man Who Stole a Conti-

nent WAS Satan. If so, the cruel and selfish actions of his

children and their corrupt philosophy of

life would be understandable as the actions

and the philosophy of Satan's Children.

Likewise Satanic, are the grandchildren

of The Man Who Stole a Continent-they

of today who grind the black man's face in

the dust through their evil "policies."

For the morality of The Man Who Stole

a Continent and of his children and grand­

children and agents can only be character­

ized as the Most Way-Out Evil this world

has ever known. And Way-Out Evil is

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Satanic, and has only one possible end: to

be cast out altogether and forever from the

society known as humankind; to be cast

into the burning fire which is its natural

home; to be remembered only (by the

generations which follow its end) as the

most devastating catastrophe that ever be-

fell mankind.

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