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Gill and she will use up the remaining time.
There is only one minute left.
Delegate Gill.
DELEGATE GILL: Mr. Chairman and fellow
delegates, when I first rose I rose because I was very
confused by Delegate Uardwicke.
I couldn't understand how his name could be
on the minority report and then he lead the opposition to
that report, especially when I considered him a fair-
minded man, who either stood for something or didn't
stand for it.
After that time passed, and a lot of delegates
expressed the opinion that they couldn't understand why
this would be necessary to put in the Constitution. There
is one reason why we carit understand. You have never been
a Negro. Perhaps you will never understand for that
basic reason, but if we had nine white people down here and
the rest of them colored instead of the reverse,
nine colored and the rest of you white, all of the rest
of those delegates would understand that this would be a
vital inclusion in the Constitution, not because we want



 
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