MIM NOTES No. 190  July 15, 1999

Why Maoists read the Wall Street Journal: Business newspaper 
exposes paper trail of segregationist money

by MC45

The Wall Street Journal reported on 11 June that a northern 
millionaire had made substantial anonymous monetary contributions 
to a Southern segregationist society that helped to terrorize 
Blacks and Civil Rights Movement participants. The beacon of old 
Amerikan money and high finance reports that Wickliffe Draper made 
donations in stocks whose worth ranged in the hundreds of 
thousands of dollars to the cause of perpetuating advanced 
national oppression in the southern u.$.

The Civil Rights Movement was a deep reformist struggle. Many of 
the participants and leaders worked with the knowledge that while 
segregation was only legal in the old slaveholding states, it was 
enforced throughout Amerika. Continued legal segregation -- which 
until this year in Alabama prohibits Blacks and whites from inter-
marrying -- exposes the hypocrisy of this country's claims to 
promote liberty and justice for all citizens. 

Facts like this one help to underscore the importance of putting 
our time and money into fighting the entire system that maintains 
national oppression rather than attacking its symptoms. Reformism 
will never go further than the symptoms but MIM seeks to cure the 
disease of imperialism by overthrowing it and establishing a 
system in the interests of the majority of the world's people 
where no nation oppresses or exploits another nation.

Source: Wall Street Journal 11 June, 1999, p. 1.