[Liz]

She supported the work of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.

Nevertheless, she wrote in a letter to Maryat Lee 3rd May, 1964, “You know, I’m an integrationist by principle & a segregationist by taste anyway. I don’t like negroes. They all give me a pain and the more of them I see, the less and less I like them. Particularly the new kind.”

[Cecily]

How many black people then and now have said the exact same thing about whites or other groups? Probably millions.

[MurphsLaw]

She sawlife in the segregated south more clearly than most, and more clearly than those who say they do.....especially for the modern liberal of today where it is now not only OK, but are reduced to “judging people by the color of their skin, and NOT the content of their character,”...it’s pure hypocrisy for the liberal when they run up against brutal honesty, And make no mistake- Honesty is brutal.

From the New Yorker hit piece:
In May, 1964, she wrote to her friend Maryat Lee, a playwright who was born in Tennessee, lived in New York, and was ardent for civil rights:

About the Negroes, the kind I don’t like is the philosophizing prophesying pontificating kind, the James Baldwin kind. Very ignorant but never silent. Baldwin can tell us what it feels like to be a Negro in Harlem but he tries to tell us everything else too. M. L. King I dont think is the ages great saint but he’s at least doing what he can do & has to do. Don’t know anything about Ossie Davis except that you like him but you probably like them all. My question is usually would this person be endurable if white. If Baldwin were white nobody would stand him a minute. I prefer Cassius Clay. “If a tiger move into the room with you,” says Cassius, “and you leave, that dont mean you hate the tiger. Just means you know you and him can’t make out. Too much talk about hate.” Cassius is too good for the Moslems.

But we mustnt think like that.....Anymore...