Michael L. Lomax Quotes
What I've had to do is divide my time between black churches and white garden clubs. I want to be Atlanta's mayor, but I would also like to be Georgia's governor or senator. I can't be that without white support.
Michael L. Lomax, Chairman, Fulton County [Georgia] Commission, Chairman of the Board of the United Negro College Fund, President of Dillard University, Quoted in New York Times, July 16, 1988
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Wallace became the national symbol for segregation, won the governorship and later ran as a independent for the Presidency.
The rich whites won the class war by splitting the poor and working class with race hatred and then coopting one half—the poor whites so that neither the poor whites or blacks obtained much and even into the 21st century the poor of the American South were the worst off of all the poor in America.
This quotation explains why so many of the Southern poor so actively supported the racist Slavery system even though they could not afford slaves and received no direct benefit from slavery or the discrimination against free Blacks. The poor were not at the bottom of the totem pole, and therefore had a dignity and social status, that the poor in a racially integrated society never possessed.
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This quotation illustrates the extreme distortion of even observed evidence that many racists of the early 20th Century went through. Mcdougall was a Harvard professor and was familiar with the intellectual accomplishments of a number of Blacks including W. E. B. Du Bois who also was a Harvard man who was even superior to most whites at that institution. However his racial ideology could not possibly allow that Negroes could be as accomplished as some of them was. His “creative” explanation given here is that all accomplished Blacks must have had white blood, because only white blood could produce such genius. Note also the emphasis that he places on the historical inability of Negroes to form a nation. McDougall knew little about history as there were many Negro nations created from ancient Biblical times throughs the 19th century. Shaka who not only built a Zulu nation but turned it into an expansionist empire contesting England in the Anglo Zulu Wars of the late 19th century as both entires fought to see which would colonize and dominate much of the South of Africa,
Some whites opposed Slavery and new slave states, not becasue of any sympathy with Negroes or concern for the immorality of slavery, but becasue slavery made it difficult for the working white man to thrive.
Referring to Montgomery Alabama in 1950.
Moynihan was an Assistant Secretary of Labor at the time. At the time politicians did not overtly discuss the racism that had, did then, and still does permeate the American culture. Segregation had just been made illegal but was still rampant. Many whites were highly insulted by this paper. Most Blacks were outraged at Moynihan's general thesis. So the report offended many.
Oates was a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War. His statement almost started a brawl as the Memorial Dedication was a joint North-South participation event. Northern politicians, officers and men were outraged and rose to their feet with several mounting the rostrum to refute Oates intemperate remarks. However, like Southern politicians of the 1960s, they produced a lot of redneck support with such extreme statements. The main reason this quotation is important is that most politicians of North and South wanted to get the animosity of the Civil War over with and to do so sponsored these memorial events where both sides could celebrate and remember the bravery of men fighting and dying for their cause. The photographs of former enemies shaking hands which the newspapers ran frequently, would give the impression that by the 1880s the hatred and animosity of the Civil War was behind the nation. However, that was not at all true. Most veterans of both sides maintained their hatreds throughout their entire lives. Even their children carried the hatred into the next generation. Politicians were expected to not open the scabs of the old wounds in public, but many like Oates found political utility in not doing so. The moral outrage of many in the North remained until WWII when regional unity genuinely transcended the Civil War. See {639364} for a Northern example with no political motive but with uncontrollable moral outrage.
One of the driving forces to employ the Negro was the lower wages that they could be paid compared to white workers.
Michael Lucius Lomax has, since 2004, served as the president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund of the United States.
