George S. Schuyler and the Atomic Bomb in 1945

Conservatives please note: Schuyler was also an unforgiving opponent of Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. In his column for the Pittsburgh Courier on August 18, 1945, he had the following reaction to the news:

The atomic bomb has opened new fields of speculation on the future of war, peace and the progress of what we laughingly call civilization. Its effect will be even greater than was the use of firearms in a world of spears, swords, shields and arrows, or the introduction of the steam engine in a world of wagons and sailing ships. It is the characteristic of humanity that the atom's tremendous energy should have been used first in warfare. Not satisfied with being able to kill people by the thousand, we have now achieved the supreme triumph of being able to slaughter whole cities at a time. In this connection it is interesting to note that there is no longer any pretense that only military installations are targets. Skimming through in the skies over Hiroshima, one of our bombing planes dropped the fearsome atomic bomb to murder 200,000 or Japanese mothers, fathers and children indiscriminately. It seems that just yesterday we were bemoaning German barbarism in bombing Warsaw, Rotterdam, London and other industrial centers, and citing as evidence of the Japanese savagery the slaughter of a few thousand innocents in Shanghai. There was also much Christian head-wagging over the mistreatment of some American soldiers by Nipponese gorillas but there is little except praise for the exploits of our airmen in wiping out 200,000 human beings in one blow......

This means the Anglo-Saxons led by the U.S.A will have their way in the world until other people discover and perfect a weapon more devastating that the uranium bomb. That way it must be admitted is that way of white imperialism which firearms enabled them to establish two centuries ago. Controlling this tremendous power for evil are second-rate and small-minded men filled with racial arrogance such as Truman, Tom Connally, Jimmy Byrnes, Stimson, Bilbo and our military-naval officer cliques, who believe in racial segregation and color discrimination with religious fanaticism and have not the slightest intention of lowering the color barriers their forefathers established."