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This is to be regretted, because the significance of the Till case could not have been much clearer to Mr. Halberstam if he had been familiar with the Scottsboro case of the 1930's, when nine men were railroaded to death and to jail, and almost nothing of the furor of the Till case was heard...
...heartily agree with Mr. Halberstam that emotionalism on the part of the NAACP did nothing to further the "cause of better racial relations." But in a sense this is a particular instance in a larger sphere that has not a great deal of significance in the ultimate analysis of the Southern ideology...
...point which I believe Mr. Halberstam to have missed is that the Southern position represents an extreme case in a manner of thinking which permeates, in varying degrees, a large segment of the Western world or more precisely, a great majority of the "Caucasian" world...
Where he could have contributed something definite, Mr. Halberstam instead prefers to indulge in vague propositions such as"...the whole state was aroused against the crime, and anxious to see justice done." The first part of this statement is highly conjectural, while the latter part begs for definition. What does he mean by justice? Wasn't justice promulgated when Bryant and Milan were exonerated. Many white southerners would think so. The bare and ugly fact remains that there is no such thing as justice for a Negro in the South if we interpret justice to mean a minimum amount...
...conclusion, I put forth the proposition that Mr. Halberstam has missed the point in his analysis of the Till case. His manner of thinking has restricted him to the immediate consequences, and he has not envisaged these consequences as being important only so far as they affect the entity of social thought...