Race Equality
Sir, —Senator Robert Kennedy does well to recommend racial equality to South Africa; but he has evidently forgotten that Paul Robeson, one of the finest men of his race and a true American, was ostracised and ruined for preaching that same doctrine in America. Mr Kennedy could not have picked better audiences—young students at an impressionable age, and
Bantus at Soweto. How many had even seen an American before, let alone understood English? A pity Mr Kennedy could not spend a little time on the Mobile river, and see the way his beloved Negroes have to live there, not to mention Birmingham and New Orleans, and many other places in the southern states. Soweto is a model township for Bantu covering 30 square miles, has 100,000 houses, and the South African Government has every reason to be proud of it.—Yours, etc., D. VICARS. June 12, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31084, 13 June 1966, Page 12
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148Race Equality Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31084, 13 June 1966, Page 12
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