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Ernest Rodriguez' "Impressions," 1960s-1980s

""Black Civil Rights Movement"" by Ernest Rodriguez Page 1

Black Civil Rights Movement
Ernest Rodriguez 

The most classic enigma of America is it's racially prejudiced oriented society. It is the underlying cause of race riots and the biggest deterrent of real progress in race relations. The American Negro, having witnessed and participated in wars of liberation around the world, finds his own efforts to gain freedom of opportunity at home invariably meets with the disfavor of his fellow white American and incites him to a higher degree of perjudice. It is the hypocrisy of this impossible to accept situation and the evil social conditions it perpetuates that nettles, frustrates and infuriates negros, and as we have seen drives a minimal few of them to open and defiant rebellion. 

The tolerance of the negro to the injustices heaped upon him over a period of 300 years and his justified impatience now with the pace of steps to rectify these injustices has been nothing less than highly commendable. 

The pace of the civil rights movement needs greater participation of white community leaders for its acceleration, and this precicely is the goal of civil rights protests and demonstrations to bring the white power structure to the realization that it must join hands with the negro leadership to bring about swift and effective solutions to race problems. The civil war never really succeeded in liberating the negro for it was followed by social oppression and economic slavery that kept the negro in a caste status based on the falsity of racial inferiority. It is precisely this misconception of negro inferiority that confounds the white americans reason when approaching problems in the area of race relations.

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Black Civil Rights Movement Ernest Rodriguez The most classic enigma of America is it's racially prejudiced oriented society. It is the underlying cause of race riots and the biggest deterrent of real progress in race relations. The American Negro, having witnessed and participated in wars of liberation around the world, finds his own efforts to gain freedom of opportunity at home invariably meets with the disfavor of his fellow white American and incites him to a higher degree of perjudice. It is the hypocrisy of this impossible to accept situation and the evil social conditions it perpetuates that nettles, frustrates and infuriates negros, and as we have seen drives a minimal few of them to open and defiant rebellion. The tolerance of the negro to the injustices heaped upon him over a period of 300 years and his justified impatience now with the pace of steps to rectify these injustices has been nothing less than highly commendable. The pace of the civil rights movement needs greater participation of white community leaders for its acceleration, and this precicely is the goal of civil rights protests and demonstrations to bring the white power structure to the realization that it must join hands with the negro leadership to bring about swift and effective solutions to race problems. The civil war never really succeeded in liberating the negro for it was followed by social oppression and economic slavery that kept the negro in a caste status based on the falsity of racial inferiority. It is precisely this misconception of negro inferiority that confounds the white americans reason when approaching problems in the area of race relations.