![]() This is sort of a compensatory special treatment, and this man can come home and can maybe start a business with appropriations by the government that the people who didn't go can't get. They suffered and sacrificed, so the nation gets the GI bill of rights. Maybe if a war is out, they have to go right through that. They would have gone on uninterrupted with their education and other things. That deprives them of opportunities they would have had. Our nation sees the necessity as any nation to call certain men in the armed forces. Now you don't put anybody out of a job, but you just make it possible for the individuals who are behind to catch up. Now, he's faced with a very serious problem and that is that he is required to be as productive as people who have not had these conditions and the only thing that a society can do for individuals who have been deprived of something is to give them a little special treatment. Now the fact is that the Negro has had 244 years of slavery in America and working without wages and then he's had a hundred years of segregation and mistreatment in generally. You've got to give him the equipment to catch up. On the other hand, I think we must honestly face a fact if one gets behind in a race, he must eternally remain behind or run faster than the man in front. In the day of automation, these are the jobs that are passing away so the Negro gets a double for outright discrimination and automation doing away with certain jobs. Now the Negro has suffered more because of automation than whites because the Negro, with limited educational opportunities and having been denied apprenticeship training in so many instances and outright discrimination, has been limited to unskilled and semi‐skilled labor. So the first thing I'm concerned about is full employment for everybody. Now the government, working with industry and labor, must deal with this problem. ![]() This problem has been brought into being because of automation and automation must be grappled with and used for good rather than to put a lot of people out of work. King: Well I guess there are two things that must be said about this whole question and this whole problem of preferential treatment for Negroes and hiring policies.įirst, I think we must all see that there is a general problem in our economy and the nation must face it aggressively. King, another question, do you feel it is socially just to place a colored person in a high position because of his color, bypassing in the same act many white men who have priority because of their seniority? Read Fieldhouse, Western Michigan University (18 December 1963): Here are some excerpts from his "Social Justice and the Emerging New Age" address at the Herman W. ![]()
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