Fr. Markoes Comments
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1964-4-3
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The Omaha Star , Box 05 , Box 05 Folder 14
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"We are witnessing the gradual development of a most strange and pernicious situation in the ""All-American” city of Omaha. Thousands of our rent-paying, tax-paying, respectable decent citizens in this falsely-labeled “All-American” city are— and have been for years— being frustrated, stifled and slowly strangled to death, both spiritually and physically, by the damnable, unwritten, illegal, immoral, rotten, but efficiently enforced by cowardly and sneaky means, policy of en forced segregation. great white All this apparently has the blessings of the City Fathers to whom these mistreated and abused citizens have appealed for holy and relief only to be rebuffed. When, reluctantly and in sheer desperation, these maligned citizens suggests that their only recourse is to resume demonstrations, they are accused by a member of the City Council of making a threat. This procedure has already been condemned by this “All-American” city “great and only daily newspaper whose editorial policy chooses to publish a series of feature articles on the General Motors Father Markoe Company in preference to the thoroughly rotten human situation developing for the worst right under the editor's nose. So what is to be done by the thousands of decent, law abiding, respectable citizens of Omaha in this impasse? To appeal to the City Council is a waste of time. The members of this City Council are too dumb and short-sighted to recognize obvious facts staring them in the face. To demonstrate is not the way according to the daily newspaper. It is also a threat according to the City Council. So it seems that the only thing left for these thousands of suppressed citizens of Omaha to do is to learn to like, to enjoy and to live with and under conditions that the ""“great white” City Fathers and their white supporters themselves would hate and detest if they had to live under these conditions. To expect this— and apparently this is what is expected. is too unrealistic even to imagine. Trouble lies ahead for Omaha in spite of the sincere, earn est efforts of many of its better citizens to avoid it."
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