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...Admittedly William Faulkner had much to say about the racial issue and did much to clarify the historical and psychological patterns that motivate racist activity in the South. However, it is a gross mistake to leave the impression that his fame rests on this fact. A thousand years from now, when other issues dominate the mass media of the day, William Faulkner will still be recognized (along with Shakespeare, Milton and others) as a giant among literary artists. William Faulkner used the myth of the South to embody universal answers to universal questions-not to explain the racial situation...
...Atlanta, perhaps the most moderate of the South's big cities, some of the worst flare-ups took place. One occurred when three Negro ministerial students sought to test a fried-chicken joint owned by Lester Maddox, an unsuccessful Georgia office seeker and a loud racist. Maddox was waiting for them in the parking lot of his place, waving a snub-nosed pistol. "You ain't never gonna eat here!" he shouted, shoving against the car door as the Negroes started to get out. When the students persisted, Maddox and another white man grabbed ax handles from...
Thus the plot of Absalom, Absalom! sums up the fundamental Southern anxiety: to the racist's question, "would you want your sister to marry one," Faulkner adds "when he may be your brother?" This, Faulkner seems to say, lies at the heart of the almost paranoiac fear of the "mixing of bloods," which would call in question the belief in a difference between the races on which white dominance was founded, and which, as the owner of one of Mississippi's largest plantations said last week, is still "very real for many whites today...
...some South Africans it seemed that world opinion had finally taken effect on their nation's stubborn racist masters. Eight men accused of membership in the revolutionary Umkonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) group had been convicted of sabotage, a crime that carries the death penalty. But last week the eight-six black, one white and an Indian-were sentenced to life imprisonment. Another white defendant was acquitted but immediately rearrested on other charges...
...savagery mounted, New Yorkers-millions of them totally dependent on subways for transportation -began to feel desperate. Adding to their fear was a chilling slogan-"White Man, Your Time Is Up"-scrawled on subway station walls. Civil rights leaders and police insisted it was not a campaign organized by racist Negroes. N.A.A.C.P. President Roy Wilkins declared that subway terrorists did not attack from "purely racial motivations," but he added: "Part of the context in which these Negro delinquents are bred is indeed bitterness and frustration, which all Negroes feel at the continued denial of equal opportunity everywhere...