THE MAN WHO STOLE A CONTINENT BY JOHN M. WEATHERWAX

1. THE MAN WHO STOLE
A CONTINENT
BY
JOHN M. WEATHERWAX
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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
COVER: Coat-of-Arms of the slave trader Sir John Hawkins_ of its people, sending them over the ocean
-ten million to the Eastern Hemisphere
and ten million to the Western Hemis-
The John Henry and Mary Louisa Dunn
Bryant Foundation phere.
Los Angeles 29, California In the process of capturing the twenty
Copyright, 1963, by The John Henry and Mary Louisa Dulin million people whom he sold, eighty mil-
Bryant Foundation.
lion other people died-some during slave
Printed in the United States of America
raids (for when a village was raided, often
Printed by the Bryant Foundation for the Educa- the very young and very old and the sick
tion Department, Eastside Settlement House, 1219
East Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles 11, California. were killed), some from exposure, disease
Eastside Settlement House is a National Monument
of the National Association of Colored Women's and grief during shipment abroad, and
Clubs, Inc some by suicide at the water's edge or in
Printed as a public service through the courtesy
of Mr. James A. McGann, Founder-President, West transit.
Indian American Club, 923 East Adams Boulevard,
Los Angeles 11, California. The sale of twenty million human be-
Additional copies, at twenty-five cents per pam-
phlet, may be obtained at the Settlement House or ings as slaves gave the man hundreds of
from the Aquarian Spiritual Center Bookshop, 1302
West Santa Barbara Ave., Los Angeles 37, California. millions of treasure. But this was only the
December, 1963. .25 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-
scendants, and even though the half-wage
holders, through a practice of paying the
system today means poverty and lack of
descendants of slatJes on the average only
opportunity and despair and unnecessary
one-half the wages received by whites.
disease and earlier death for millions upon
(This practice is continued to this day,
millions of descendants of slaves right now,
made easy because most descendants of
the beneficiaries of this ethically upside-
slaves are distinguishable from other peo-
down world would not dream of making
ple by their color.)
restitution to anyone! By failing to do so-
And so, from these three sources- ( 1 )
in fact by simply refusing to equalize wages
the sale of slaves, (2) the unpaid labor of
- they are able to stifle the hopes and
generations of slaves, and (3) the practice
crush the aspirations of millions of people.
of paying (on the average) a half-wage to
And because (when wages, or rent, or
descendants of slaves-there was, over the
interest, or profits or property are con-
years, a tremendous, almost uncountable,
cerned) they have accustomed themselves
accumulation of wealth.
to separate Cause from Effect, they see
The quantity of this stupendous treasure
nothing immoral in their actions. They
is now so immense that banks in every city
can and do establish wage levels for mil-
of the land, and underground vaults for the
lions which will not permit the family of
storage of gold, are required to house and
the wage-worker to have proper nutrition;
guard it.
and then they blame their action on "com-
Although this treasure-every penny of
petition" or "the market" or "prices"-
it-has been squeezed from the very hearts
whereas the legislatures which they control
of blacks, absolute control and disposition
could establish minimum wage levels at a
of it is in the hands of whites.
level which would make proper nutrition
And even though an ocean of blood was
possible. More: they could, if they wished,
spilled by The Man Who Stole a Conti-
equalize with a federal government check
nent, and even though agony and heart-
at the end of each year, every income below
break for millions of innocents was the
the national average. Or guarantee to
"gift" to humanity of his slaveholder de-
descendants of slaves medical-dental treat-
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ment equal to that now available to whites. nicians with highly developed skills and
Or pay reparations to the descendants of insights and training, were instant to do
slaves (since the "property"-that is, the their bidding, for each of the man's chil-
labor, of the slaves was stolen from them) . dren and grandchildren waved a wand of
But programs to equalize the economic gold.
status of descendants of slaves and the rest But the management and safeguarding
of the population are brushed off as "not of this immense wealth brought with it
their concern." many problems. The mere presence in one
The accumulation of this fabulous country alone of twenty million descend-
wealth made it possible for The Man Who ants of slaves (to say nothing of one hun-
Stole a Continent and his children and dred fifty million other people), greatly
grandchildren to build railroads and outnumbering the numerically small group
bridges and tunnels, mines and oil wells of those who were the inheritors of The
and lumber mills, power plants and office Treasure, was disquieting and at times even
buildings and factories, farm machinery alarming to the children and grandchildren
and grain siloes and canneries which made of the Man Who Stole a Continent, and
the exploitation of other continents and their close associates.
other peoples easier. To preserve "law and order" and thus
Besides, all of the favored managers of prevent any open challenge to their con-
these enterprises, and especially the owners trol of The Treasure, the children and
thereof, were able to have many homes, grandchildren and their political experts
even palaces, many automobiles, many ser- devised a system of police, courts and pris-
vants, and the luxury of jet travel at the ons, which dealt with any who stole from
dictate of a whim. them, or who organized demonstrations or
The finest hotels, the most able doctors, uprisings against them. Those who organ-
the best office suites, were at their com- ized revolutions against them were severely
mand. dealt with.
Professors holding degrees from the old- To assist the police, courts and prisons
est universities, research scientists and tech- ( especially in periods when criticism of the
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5. Administrators of The Treasure was loud) , 1 country, the main headquarters country of
there were repressive laws and ordinances the Administrators. And since the descend-
and procedures, together with a variety of ants of The Man Who Stole a Continent
oaths that the people were compelled to were too smart and clever to payout of
swear to, investigating committees, and their own pockets the wages of this huge
threats of job-loss for the more vocal or army of civil and military "servants," they
active critics. proposed an "income tax" through which
Worried by the extent, the sharpness (by the simple device of withholding
and the accuracy of criticism, and by the wages) they were able to take money every
persistence and ingenuity of the critics, the day from the pockets of every worker in
children and grandchildren of The Man the land; thus the burden 'of paying the
Who Stole a Continent quietly prepared vast army of civil and military "servants"
concentration camps in the mountains and fell not on those who "owned" and con-
deserts at out-of-the-way places. These trolled The Treasure, but on the ordinary
were for the forcible detention of any man and woman, already overburdened
large-scale protesting groups which might with living expenses. Yet it was they, the
get out-of-hand. In preparation for such "owners," the Administtators of The Treas-
eventualities, dogs were trained by police ure, whose pocket-picking system was
in scores of cities, and practice use of these watched over and cared for by courts and
dogs was resorted to in breaking up local police; it was they who were the chief ben-
demonstrations. eficiaries of the complex operations carried
All of the people who served the inter- on by the two million "public servants."
ests of the Administrators of The Treasure, Without these servants they ·could not
including all those who did a variety of have carried on for a day the huge job of
public duties necessary for the operation of distributing the products of their factories;
a large and complex society, were called managing credit, monthly billings, adver-
"public servants." tising mailings; keeping up the roads,
No less than two million "public ser- patrolling them; guarding warehouses; col-
vants" were on the payrolls in a single lecting customs duties, and so on. The
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6. Administrators preferred to have all these Special bodies of armed men, called
services paid for mainly by someone other "Guards," were used to reinforce local po-
than themselves. lice bodies in keeping "law and order"
Because rubber was needed from the ( that is, in repressing demonstrations
tropics for automobile and truck tires; and against The Establishment). "Force and
vegetable oils were needed for soaps and violence" was decried; except that an un-
cosmetics; and gold and diamonds were limited amount of "force and violence"
needed for adornment and for industry; could be used, and was used, by representa-
and uranium was needed for the making tives of The Administrators. That also
of atom bombs, free access by The Admin- made it nice for The Administrators, for
istrators to the resources of the world was all the force was on one side-their side.
a key need of the Top Brass. The Man Who Stole a Continent was
Therefore, systems of international law, sanctimonious.
including treaties, agreements, conferences, It had been his practice to carry a Bible
world courts and world forums for the ex- in one hand and a Gun in the other. His
pression of opinion, had to be devised. But descendants learned this lesson well; but
since the gentlemen and ladies of the Top desiring to avoid direct use of force wher-
Bracket were unable to rely on instant ever possible, they early saw to it that the
obedience from such bodies (which often churches and the schools were used to pro-
included even relatives of those killed in mulgate value systems that (once they
the original slave raids), the Administra- were in the minds of the ruled) would
tors had several armies, navies and air com- tend to discourage any seriou~ challenging
mands under their absolute control. of The Establishment's ways of doing
But these bodies were often used on things.
loan, asit were, to the government or sov- Everything tending to develop blindness
ereigns of other countries, to enable those to one's own best interests was encouraged
countries or sovereigns to crush and hold through these channels. Meekness was
in check those who did not wish to be mere praised. The virtues of being a good servant
appendages of another power. were extolled. Obedience to authority, re-
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gardless of whether that authority was hon- taught to take into their minds ideas and
est, or good, or humane, was presented as concepts poisoned by prejudice, hatred, sus-
a Great Virtue; and conversely, those who picion, fear and doubt. For with every
challenged authority were labelled passing decade it had become more and
"Trouble-makers," "Subversives," and more obvious to the children and grand-
"Reds"-even though many of those who children of The Man Who Stole a Conti-
cbllenged authority quite obviously were nent that such attitudes and moods among
blacks, and many who sought redress of the people was the best possible means of
grievances quite obviously were trying hard preventing the descendants of the slaves
to avoid causing "trouble" by teaching (as well as the poorer whites) from unit-
their followers the techniques of non- ing against their oppressors.
violence. And so, on a street named after an early
But it was not alone in the worlds of President, hundreds upon hundreds of
ethics and politics that The Establishment offices worked the clock around, and from
was supreme. • season to season and year to year, setting
People were taught to eat food that had region against region, city groups against
been poisoned by deadly sprays; they were people from the countryside, men against
constantly urged to smoke cigarettes in the women, children against their elders, black
face of scientific evidence .that smokers against white, and each national group
much more frequently than non-smokers against the descendants of other national
get lung cancer; they were propagandized groups. The, foreign born were pitted
into. thinking that drinking stupefying against the native born, unorganized labor
liquors was socially the thing to do; and against organized labor, and the educa~ed
they were encouraged to get into needless against the uneducated. Even those who
debt, thus making them work and study lived on one side of the railroad tracks were
and plan on how to get out of debt instead taught to hate and fear those who lived on
of on how to achieve a 1'ational society the other side.
functioning in the interests of humanity. Films, radio and television with subtle-
Most important of all, people were ness insinuated these concepts into their
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8. product; fashion and society enforced banks or railways or insurance companies
them; almost every social organization was was regarded as near-treason, and such ad-
encouraged to have its own "standards" by vocates could hold no job in any bank,
which all but a minute proportion of the railway or insurance company.
population would be excluded. Because the children and grandchildren
l'he purpose of all this was to fragment of The Man Who Stole a Continent had
society, to encourage division, to prevent the requisite money and power, they were
the ordinary people from achieving unity; able to retain control over the policies of
for The Establishment correctly perceived newspapers, magazines, television stations,
that unity down below would mean a radio programs and other media useful in
speedy end to The Establishment's ability creating and shaping public opinion.
to deceive, and hence to rule; hence, an end They did this in various ways, such as
to The Establishment itself, and the begin- by outright stock ownership, by loans, by
ning of rational cooperation instead of advertising, by licenses, sources of paper,
selfish greed as the motivating force in sources of talent, monopoly of channels,
government. etc.
The school and church promulgators of Through blacklists, loyalty checks and
the value system of the Power Structure other devices for pe.rsonnel control, serious
were especially sensitive to certain words. critics of The Order were eliminated.
Advocates of "socialism" or "communism" Through campaign gifts to both parties,
automatically became social lepers .. And the Top Bracket people always had plenty
those who wished merely to have an honest of spokesmen in the highest law-making
debate on the merits of such systems versus bodies, and usually sent one of their own
the "enterprise" system of The Power number to sit in the seat of highest power
Structure, became economic outcasts. Al- in the government.
though the postal system and certain large- A Senator from one of the Dakotas, for
scale electrification projects were examples instance, could sit in the Senate for life
of the value of public ownership of certain simply through being backed by one of the
services, advocacy of "nationalization" of main families of The Establishment. It was
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9. very nice for the politicians, who showed But those in the diamond mines grew
their deep gratitude by voting as The Estab-
iJ weary of digging and grubbing for, and
lishment wished on all key measures; The ) finding, diamonds that they and their
Establishment showed its gratitude by women could never wear; and those in the
allowing them all the latitude, all the gold mines became bitter about handing
"personal freedom" they wished regarding the gold they dug to their employers and
lesser legislation. getting dust and dirt in wages while the
In emergencies, highly "controversial" owners lived in palaces.
(i.e., critical) bills could be "lost in com- In the central part of the Continent,
mittee" or could be "filibustered" to death. those who worke.d in the rubber planta-
New "studies" of civil rights violations tions, recalling the days when the hands of
could be made; new "reports" could be children were cut off because they did not
awaited as excuses for postponing action. bring in enough rubber, and discontented
By such measures, by such devices and with their current wages, decided to estab-
procedures and strategems, the children 1 lish a government of their own, and did.
and grandchildren of The Man Who Stole ,
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In the northern ~part of the Continent,
a Continent were able to keep everybody those who worked in the oilfields of one
"in line." of the biggest countries of that area, cut
Well, almost everybody. off the flow of oil to The Power Structure,
For with the passage of time, new gen- took up arms, and in a few years won
erations of people had arisen on The Con- internal self-rule - fighting during those
tinent That Had Been Stolen. They were years against the biggest and best-equipped
needed by The Establishment to work in armies the children and grandchildren of
the mines, to tend the plantations, to run The Man Who Stole a Continent could
the railroads and man the hydroelectric send against them.
plants that The Establishment "owned" In near-pamc, the Power Structure
I (that is, purchased with their inheritance began to devise "formulas" for independ-
from the robberies committed by The ence that would permit them (The Estab-
r
Man Who Stole a Continent). lishment) to retain indirect control.
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10. "If you will let us keep the portfolios tries desiring Freedom took that route,
of Foreign Relations, and Defense, and knowing that the so-called "Common-
Finance, we will give you all else," they wealth" (with another white-dominated
argued. Many who listened to their talk country of the continent to the north in
thought "half a loaf is better than no control of communication, transport, bank-
bread," and these people agreed to accept ing, and industry) was scarcely "Inde-
a sort of half-rule. pendence." But it, too, was regarded as a
"Let us be Partners," said the spokesmen way-station, a very big step forward toward
of one of the National Branches of the true Independence; and it certainly was
,I Power Structure - addressing national much better than they had before.
groups under their domination. "Let us Of course, The Establishment did every-
call ourselves a Community, and be happy thing it could to win support for the fiction
together." And so many of the countries that "Community" and "Commonwealth"
desiring Freedom took that route, knowing were Freedom, were V huru. For above all,
~'! that the so-called "Community" (with a The Establishment could not afford to
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tinent to the north in control of both to its own shores by having any contrary
money and guns) was scarcely "Independ- thought take root.
ence." But it at least appeared to be some- The Establishment was somewhat in
thing better than they had before. disarray, it was somewhat shaken, during
"Let us be Partners," sang the spokes- the process of letting go even partially of
men of another National Branch of the over thirty countries. But it was not dis-
Power Structure to their colonies. "Let us mayed, for it still held control of major
call ourselves a Commonwealth. Let us world finance centers, communication lines,
share and share alike; let us Share-the- air-Iand-and-sea transport networks, trade
Wealth, Hold-the-Wealth, in Common. distribution channels and armed forces.
Common Wealth, don't you see? Let us The Establishment was jolted, but was very
help one another in True Brotherhood and far from unseated.
Be Happy." And so a number of the coun- Meanwhile, noting with happiness the
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11. success of their distant relatives in attain- wide.
ing a considerable measure of self-rule, the A courageous and able local represen-
descendants of the slaves in the Western tative of the biggest of these organizations,
Hemisphere began to shake off the illu- in a Southern city, was shot in the back and
sions, the fictions, the misconceptions, that killed from ambush by a person who took
had kept them "in line" for so long.
seriously the doctrines of white supremacy.
They began to "demonstrate."
His own values having been warped and
Starting with a bus boycott in a Southern
twisted by these doctrines, he saw nothing
state, followed by sit-ins at soda fountains
wrong with an action which earned him
1n another Southern state, participation in
the contempt of decent human beings
-.the struggle spread. Soon Freedom Riders
throughout the world.
were turning up in many key cities, chal-
But these warped values had not been
lenging directly the hallowed institution created by him. They had been created and
,known as "Segregation." Some of their
fostered by The Man Who Stole a Con-
buses were overturned and burnt; and they tinent and his children and grandchildren
(the non-violents) were imprisoned, many and agents, who found them useful tools
being beaten. There were stand-ins, wade-
through which to silence the voices of the
.ins, sleep-ins. There were larger and larger oppressed.
demonstrations; and arrests by the hun-. Children attending Sunday School were
,dreds began to take place. Children and dynamited .
.grown people were knocked down on the It must be noted that the moral sense
streets with streams of water from fire- of The Man Who Stole a Continent, as
i ,hoses. Police dogs tore at the arms and' well as the moral sense of his children and
legs and throats of demonstrators. But grandchildren and agents, was not only
none of these stopped the demonstrators. warped but perverted.
The largest and strongest of the national Nowhere is this fact better shown than
'organizations of the descendants of the in the attitudes of all of them toward prop-
slaves were before long drawn into the erty - especially toward "their property."
;protest, which had at last become nation- The Man Who Stole a Continent justi-
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12. fied his seizures of land and people by a corroding of spiritual values, a steady
stating that he was bringing progress to a lowering of moral values, both private and
Dark Continent, and was "rescuing" bar- public; a withering beyond tears of the
barians from paganism, thus was "saving very souls of millions upon millions of
souls" that would otherwise burn in hell. the people of The Continent He Stole.
He claimed, when his voice could be heard No wonder they revolted against further
above the wails of the people he was rule by the children· and grandchildren of
destroying, that he was bringing enlighten- The Man Who Stole a Continent. No
ment and civilization to a backward land. wonder that most of them have little or
Never mind that so-called "pagans" had no use for the Great White Father, nor
developed the very alphabet he himself for his progeny, and are determined to rid
used; never mind that the very numbers he themselves of the last remaining shackles
used to total his profits came to his country of his era, in order to stand Free, Sovereign
by way of the "Dark Continent." Never and Equal among all the other peoples of
mind that sciences like medicine developed the world.
there for thousands of years before the In the Western Hemisphere, the chil-
people of his country emerged from club- dren and grandchildren of The Man Who
swinging and cave-dwelling. Never mind Stole a Continent justified their use of
that a murderer-such as he was-could slaves by saying that slaves were "prop-
not possibly save any soul, not even his erty" and that the "owner" of such "prop-
own. Never mind that the "enlighten- erty" could do with it as he liked. Thus
ment" he brought was disease and slavery, they justified lashing, mutilating, burning,
death and destruction to every people he lynching and plain murder. Thus they justi-
came into contact with. Never mind that fied the breakup of families, selling whom-
the "progress" he brought was a steady ever they wished "down the river" - as the
retrogression: a lowering from year to year eloquent phrase of that period put it. Thus
of all standards of living, whether in hous- they justified sleeping with another man's
ing, health, employment, family life or wife, and thus they justified selling as
child welfare. Never mind that he brought slaves their own children from such unions.
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13. But one day a great Civil War raged. tations to the Former Slaveholders.
The President of the North, after two In the two highest law-making bodies
fruitless years of warfare, saw that the war of the land, however, there were men who
would end either with a stalemate, or with had the :courage to insist that the former
victory for the South. Fearful lest the slaves be accorded the full equality that was
· North should lose, the Civil War President their due. They wrote and passed the Re-
was reluctantly forced to agree to put construction Laws which set the country on
300,000 former slaves and descendants of the track to Democracy. They even tried
slaves into service. Some 200,000 fought the Restoration President, attempting his
in the army and navy of the North; some impeachment, losing their effort by only
100,000 built fortifications, roads, bridges, one vote.
and served as wagoneers, camp cooks, For eight years the former slaves and
·scouts, spies, and servants to officers. The the descendants of slaves had the vote in
· addition of the 300,000 blacks made vic- the eleven Southern states-the years which
tory for the North possible, as the Presi- history calls the Reconstruction Period.
·dent himself made plain and clear on They accomplished so many great things,
numerous public occasions. such as starting the public school system
But sadly, the President who had or- which we have today, that the descendants
dered the Emancipation of the Slaves was of The Man Who Stole a Continent were
murdered soon after the surrender of the afraid they themselves would never get
chief military leader of the slaveholders. back into power on a state level in the
His murderer was an embittered white South unless they forcibly removed the
supremacist who was assisted by other former slaves from office.
white supremacists of both the North and And so these advocates of "white supre-
the South. macy" said "Good-bye" to morality, and
Into the dead President's shoes stepped "Welcome" to murder.
a man who favored the slaveholders - a Through intimidation, beatings, arson,
man who adopted a policy called "Restora- fraud and deceit they cut down the voting
tion" - that is, the Restoration of the Plan- registers.-and prevented the descendants of
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14. former slaves from going to the polls. By supporting in every possible way the rule
flaying people to death in the public square, at local police and sheriff levels of the most
and by burning people to death at huge brutal, the most callous and the most un-
spectacles attended by women and chil- principled elements to be found in areas
dren, and by organizing five thousand re- specializing in unprincipled, callous and
corded lynchings, plus many thousands of brutal acts.
unrecorded dumpings into sloughs, throat- Of course there were occasional twinges
cuttings and stabbings in the dead of night, of conscience.
hidden snipings and untold numbers of Here and there an official might say
merciless mutilations, the "white suprem- some kind words about the descendants of
acists" served faithfully the presumed slaves. But such officials were not re-
"best interests" of the children and grand- elected; very well-financed opposition to
children of The Man Who Stole a Conti- their candidacy at re-election time would
nent. ( "Would you want your daughter to suddenly turn up, and they would as sud-
marry a black man?" was one of the stock denly find themselves out of a job.
questions asked by supporters of the sys- Even a President or two made public
tem who "deplored" violence yet made it statements, forceful statements, demanding
possible for it to continue, thus themselves that his Party live up to its campaign
being implicated. Another question they pledges on Equality.
asked was "Don't you want white civiliza- But such words were a long way from
tion to continue?" Another was: "But are the deeds at local levels which would mean
they really ready for the vote?" ) a change in race and class relations at those
And the children and grandchildren of levels, where change must of necessity
The Man Who Stole a Continent, sitting come if Words are to be transformed into
in state courts as judges, and in governors' Action.
chairs, backed up the bloody-handed "pa- And the Supreme Court took many
triots" by freeing them when they were excellent stands on Equality. But in the
caught, praising them and the South's "pe- administration of the law there are many
culiar institution," rewarding them, and loopholes for those who want them. Six
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15. today's burning questions of real equality
years after the decision outlawing "separate
and of national unity?
but equal" schools, six per cent of the
Can the spirit of the nation ever be
South's schools were integrated; eight years
cleansed of the filth in which that spirit
after the decision, eight per cent of the
has moved for almost three and a half
South's schools were integrated. At that
centuries?
rate of progress, a hundred years could pass
Can the heart of a nation change? - a
before that one aspect of Southern life-the
nation which to this day denies the vote to
school system - could be integrated. And
three out of every four black adults of vot-
what about all-black schools in Northern
ing age; a nation which to this day counte-
and Vestern cities, based onghettces?
nances the system by which descendants of
Again, it took over twenty thousand
slaves receive wages, on the average, half
armed men to place one colored student in
that of whites?
a famous old university in an infamous old
Who will make the nation look at itself
state. At that rate, it is conceivable that if
-who will make it characterize itself justly,
enough people of the old slave stock were
accurately?
to register for entrance in the colleges of
And who will live, in a society which
the South, there might well be not enough
spawns ambushers, to lead the nation back
soldiers to go around.
to brotherhood, to cooperation, to equality,
And when three little girls of African
to democracy-the real thing?
descent are, after heartbreaking struggle,
All of this-and much, much more-is
"admitted" to a formerly lily-white public
the legacy of The Man Who Stole a Conti-
school in a Southern city, is that school
nent.
really "integrated"? And has there been
It is a legacy of crimes committed-
any change in the basic attitudes, in the
crimes so numerous and so terrible as to
morality, of the community in which that
defy even listing.
school is located?
It is a legacy of corruption on a giant
But what of the whole character of life
scale; a legacy of greed unbelievable.
in a divided land? Who will look at that
It is a legacy of corroding, all-pervading
life as a whole and find the answers to
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16. Satanic, and has only one possible end: to
immorality. be cast out altogether and forever from the
It is a legacy of a pattern of life which
society known as humankind; to be cast
could please only one being: Satan.
into the burning fire which is its natural
And yet it is a legacy which has been
home; to be remembered only (by the
(even down to today) zealously defended
generations which follow its end) as the
by the children and grandchildren of The
most devastating catastrophe that ever be-
Man Who Stole a Continent.
Those children and grandchildren even fell mankind.
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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