Abstract

It Seems to Heywood Broun

The journal "Times-Journal" of Selma, Alabama has solved the race problem very simply in its editorial by asserting that there is none. If the "Times-Journal" is in any sense correct in asserting that the Negro is thoroughly complacent in his' present situation it may be a plausible quibble to maintain that there is no Negro problem, but in that case the terminology must be shifted about to admit the very lively presence of a white problem. Nor is the issue a local one. If millions of adults in the U.S. are barred from the polls and restive under this disability a serious situation exists. But to the author's mind the condition is still more grave and tragic if it is true that they have cheerfully accepted their lot. Such a state of affairs puts the whole democratic theory of government in danger.