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ANOTHER CIVIL WAR? | s su e s a r is e from time to time which cannot be classified purely as religious, political, or sociological. Instead, they incorporate all o f these general facets o f American life. It is then that these issues must be discussed by leaders in each o f these areas o f society. One such issue that is at the very forefront o f the thinking o f the Americans today is the racial problem. At the moment it might be classified as primarily an economic or sociological situation, but it has assumed such frightening proportions that it easily could affect the entire religious life o f our country, in a rather disastrous manner. It may be assumed that the vast majority o f the Negroes liv ing in the United States are peace-loving and anxious to solve problems in a peaceful manner, but there is a growing element which is assuming an increasingly belligerent attitude and mani festing itself in widespread rioting, looting, burning, and ter rorizing throughout the entire United States but particularly in the Northern States. The Southern States where the race prob lem is supposed to be most acute has never known anything like the rioting which has occurred in recent months in such widely scattered areas as Los Angeles, Newark, Phoenix, Detroit, Chica go, Cambridge, to name but a few o f the more than eighty other riot-torn cities throughout the country. The question, "Is rioting which is spreading from city to city a prelude to civil war between the races in America?” was dis cussed in the May 22, 1967 issue o f U.S. News and World Report. A well-known Negro leader, who is utterly opposed to the vio lence that seems to be running rampant throughout the country at the moment, says this in reply, " I regard it [civil war] as very real, but it would not happen all at once. There has to be so much organization . . . so if it is comforting to you, it is going to be quite a while off yet, though not so far off as to be outside o f our life span.” The possibility o f such a thing is horrible to contem plate, but it is real! Nearly one thousand "black power” leaders meeting in Newark, New Jersey, immediately following the re cent riots there, adopted some dozens o f resolutions. Among them
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