Letter Regarding Politics

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[Page 1] [Stamped in red ink: AUG[ust] 7 1967] Did you hear in the news what Romney said about the president in playing politics with the racial riots. I don't think the president intended for it to be that way. [B]e-cause I think he is disappointed that the riots got so bad- never the less. I think the Democratic [Party] has went to far out [in] promising the Negro's things that they don't have the money to work with-and when them nuts gets out of control. They leave the problem of settling the riots to the Republicans so the Democrats won't loase[lose] the Negro votes. I think they should put some of them black power leaders in the nut house-That Brown [Page 2] fellow for one up there in Maryland. He said the Negroes out to burn America down-now just what good would that be to the Negro's. I think the NAACP ought to make some suggesting to the governors of the states to put people like that in the nut house-because they have followers that agrees with them on violent actions- if they'd do something with the black power extremist. [P]robably it would wake their followers up to the fact of [Illegible]. If the government was to rebuild the Negro slums with the White folk's tax money-They slop around in it, till it would be run down again in another few years.