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4. responsible citizens will correct undemocratic practices which are brought to their attention." And what did the mirror tell us about ourselves? Some things that surprised us and some that didn't. Some good. Some bad. For example, our pattern of Negro residence has not followed typical lines of rigid racial segregation. All doctors in Burlington will accept Negro patients and there is no segregation in our hospitals. On the other hand, the preponderance of Negro workers are employed in menial, low income jobs, regardless of qualifications; 55% of our public accommodations establishments do not serve Negroes. Our blood bank segregates blood donated by Negroes from that given by whites, despite the absence of any scientific basis for such a policy. More important than any one of these facts, however, is that we had now the whole picture made up of all the facts. We no longer needed to rely on a single incident to indicate what human relations in our community really were. We had eliminated guess work. And with it has disappeared the fiction that "there is no problem." So now, instead of talking about whether the problem exists, Burlingtonians discuss what to do about it. At least then, we have found one way, to use someone else's words, of making indifferent people different. In my opinion If this is our
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4. responsible citizens will correct undemocratic practices which are brought to their attention." And what did the mirror tell us about ourselves? Some things that surprised us and some that didn't. Some good. Some bad. For example, our pattern of Negro residence has not followed typical lines of rigid racial segregation. All doctors in Burlington will accept Negro patients and there is no segregation in our hospitals. On the other hand, the preponderance of Negro workers are employed in menial, low income jobs, regardless of qualifications; 55% of our public accommodations establishments do not serve Negroes. Our blood bank segregates blood donated by Negroes from that given by whites, despite the absence of any scientific basis for such a policy. More important than any one of these facts, however, is that we had now the whole picture made up of all the facts. We no longer needed to rely on a single incident to indicate what human relations in our community really were. We had eliminated guess work. And with it has disappeared the fiction that "there is no problem." So now, instead of talking about whether the problem exists, Burlingtonians discuss what to do about it. At least then, we have found one way, to use someone else's words, of making indifferent people different. In my opinion If this is our
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