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Re; Jackie Robinson, Stamford, Connecticut CONFID TIAL no one has ever questioned my race's loyalty except a few people who don't amount to very much, Ate _ vwhat I'n ‘trying to ‘get across ‘de. . oy te 1 210 that the American public is off on” a , the wrong feet when it begins to. te J ' think of radicalism in terms of any es special minority group. It is | oo ; thinking of this sort that gets people scared because one Negro, speaking to a communist group in. -. Paris, threatens an oxpnized boycott by 15,000,000 members of his race. "J can't speak for any 15,000,000. - peqie any more than any other one personcan, but I know that I’ve got too much invested for my wife and child and myself in the future of this country, and I and other Americans of many races andfaiths have too much invested in our country's welfare, for any of us to throw it away because of a siren song sung in bass. I am a religious man, Therefore I cherish America where I am free to worship as _ YI please, a privilege which some a countries do not give. And I suspect that 999 outa? almost any thousand colored Americans you meet will tell you the same thing. "But that doesn't mean that we're . going to stop fighting race dis- crimination in this country until we've got it licked. It means that we're going to fight it all the harder because our stake in the future . : . Do, is so big. We can win our fight pron a ees vie 0 without the communists and ve n't. SE want their help.” : _ CONFIDENTIAL oo. 100-428 §50-Nor RECORDED ee re er er re I