Dismissed," about the scandalous turn-in the Mississippi case. involving the murder of three civil~ rights Workers:
‘the twenty-one presumed Mississippi murderers have been sent home, ‘free, their money back. The judge decided that the. euphemistic charge of '!violating civil rights! was not justified and refused to hear one of the: ‘suspects who: had turned witness.
“on, it is known that the 'black: problem! is hard to solve in the United States, all the more so since it's not something natural; itts an old account that owes a lot to the slave market,
nas “But decisions like the one just made by the Mississippi judge don't simplify the question. If you give some thought to'the fact: that in certain states, :.the murder of three antiracist youths is not a crime, nor a misdemeanor, nor even an infraction of minor police regulations, if justice doesn't want to hear those who have confessed and who, probably, are remorseful, it's not the ‘black problem! that's felt ne uneasy consciences with most acuteness, ‘it's the white pro- |. blem,. - :