![]() ![]() If there are not adequate Negro schools in Florida, and there is some residual, some inherent and unchangeable quality in white schools, impossible to duplicate anywhere else, then I am the first to insist that Negro children of Florida be allowed to share this boon. However an analytical glance will show that that is not the case. Now a great clamor will arise in certain quarters that I seek to deny the Negro children of the South their rights, and therefore I am one of those "handkerchief-head niggers" who bow low before the white man and sell out my own people out of cowardice. His well known pride and self-respect would save him from that. Certainly he fought, and valiantly for his lands, and rightfully so, but it is inconceivable of an Indian to seek forcible association with anyone. ![]() How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody to associate with me who does not wish me near them? The American Indian has never been spoken of as a minority and chiefly because there is no whine in the Indian. The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. But since a lot of time has passed and no one seems to touch on what to me appears to be the most important point in the hassle, I break my silence just this once. ![]() Supreme Court decision on ending segregation in the public schools of the South. I promised God and some other responsible characters, including a bench of bishops, that I was not going to part my lips concerning the U.S. "Court Order Can't Make Races Mix." In Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings, edited by Cheryl A. ![]()
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