ABSTRACT
In an editorial that appeared in the May 24, 1980 Amsterdam News following the racial explosion in Miami, black columnist Louis Clayton Jones, in trying to account for the situation in the devastated black neighborhoods, provided this unencouraging declaration:
To the civil rights types who are frantically rushing to Miami to quell the rebellion, this writer would remind you that you have never had a program for the disaffected masses and you have none now. Go home before you get shot and, for once, stop acting like house colored helping “Massa” put down a slave revolt.
