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PHOTOCOPIED October 2, 2002; NASM PRESERVATION COPY

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Country Irritant

EACH RACE HAS ITS SHARE OF GOOD AND BAD

New Hyde Park --Many letters have been printed recently, objecting to the use of the word Negro in describing an individual accused of doing wrong. If no picture is published, it is taken for granted that the person accused is a white. Surely there are enough bad ones in the white race, without expecting them to carry all the blame. 

There were no objections on Oct. 27, 1954, when is was announced that Col. Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. was the first Negro to be appointed a brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force, and that his father, now retired, was the first to be made a general in the U.S. Army.

The Negro is and should be a proud race, proud of the great athletes, and the greatest of theatrical entertainers. But truly great people know that you just have to take the bad with the good, no matter how hard it hurts. The great American people know that no race, creed or color is entirely free of criminals, but they also know that no race, creed or color is completely saturated with them.

It will be a great day when all of the people in America of all races, colors and creeds shall not have to be ashamed because of the small minority that dishonor our nation.

-H.V. Stone.
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