Well see the race-baiters don't want to talk about that.
Look what happened when this race baiter tried to lie about the history of slavery:
Forgotten History - who was the first man to own slaves in Colonial America
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Look what happened when this race baiter tried to lie about the history of slavery:
I think slavery was an abhorrent and shameful event in our history.
Indentured servitude was different because it was really- for lack of a better term at the time - an employment contract with an end date and a set value. It’s how thousands of Irish arrived here.
No one living today needs to be “absolved” of anything.
A majority of Americans today are descendants of immigrants who arrived in America AFTER the Civil War. Who had nothing to do with slavery.
Just try telling THEM they owe anything for reparations. Good luck.
This is why it's race-baiting. Has no relevance whatsoever to today, it's used by dems to do the devil's work.
And so racial preference must have stopped at the end of the Civil War?
Ever heard of Reconstruction, the Black Codes, Jim Crow & Segregation?
Probably not
...but according to @goldmom racism today has nothing to do with American history
No lasting effects today...what are those negroes talkin' bout?
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/undercover-grand-knighthawk-foiled-murder-132654736.html
How an undercover grand knighthawk foiled a murder plot concocted by KKK law enforcement members
Thu, April 27, 2023 at 9:26 AM EDT·7 min read
In 2015, three men, all current or former Florida correctional officers, were arrested after investigators revealed they were Ku Klux Klan members plotting to kill a Black former inmate.
Now, "Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK," a new documentary and first-time collaboration between ABC News and The Associated Press takes viewers inside one of America's most sinister secret societies and the covert FBI operation to stop a modern-day lynching.
When the state of Florida announced the arrests of Thomas Driver, Charles Newcomb, and David Moran, it caught the eye of Associated Press journalist Jason Dearen.
"I just started looking into it and I kind of became obsessed with it."
Dearen wrote a series of articles about the case, piecing together information from court documents and interviews, but said, "there were just a lot of questions, a lot more questions than answers."
He knew that a confidential informant who infiltrated the klan had exposed the murder plot and led to the arrests, but he didn't know much else about this person.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-abc-film-probes-white-180119987.html
New AP/ABC film probes [BANNED TERM] in law enforcement
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Dozens of robed Ku Klux Klansmen gathered around a burning cross in a remote field in North Florida. It was December 2014, and after the cross lighting ceremony ended, three klansmen asked for a quiet aside with the group’s Grand Knighthawk, a klan hitman. The knighthawk was Joe Moore, a former Army sniper who’d joined the group and quickly risen through the ranks due to his military background. The men handed Moore a photograph of a Black man that they wanted killed.
The story of the klan’s murder plot and the hitman’s secret recordings made over months in 2015 formed the basis of an Associated Press 2021 investigative series called “The Badge and The Cross,” which used the story as a jumping off point to explore the issue of white supremacist group infiltration of law enforcement.
Now, a new Hulu documentary, “Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK,” based on The AP’s award-winning investigative series, begins streaming on Thursday. It was produced by ABC News Studios and George Stephanopoulos Productions in a first-time collaboration with The AP.
The FBI said the infiltration of U.S. law enforcement agencies by white supremacist groups has been a serious threat since at least 2006. The AP’s series highlighted such infiltration.
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And then you have the more generic law enforcement just being law enforcement kind of racism...
I don't think the "intolerant past" the're speaking of was as far back as slavery but what do I know...
Remember when trumpers went ballistic about law enforcement texts about donald trump?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/racist-police-text-scandal-us-100028643.html
In racist police text scandal, US town sees echoes of an intolerant past
Robin Buller in Antioch
Thu, April 27, 2023 at 6:00 AM EDT·11 min read
On 11 April, Khan discovered that she was among the numerous Antioch community members named in violently racist, misogynistic and anti-gay text messages exchanged by city law enforcement officers between 2019 and 2022. Those texts, first reported by the East Bay Times, surfaced out of a year-long investigation into police misconduct in Antioch and neighboring Pittsburg conducted by the FBI and the Contra Costa county district attorney’s office. The investigation was spurred by a litany of civil rights violations, assault incidents and cheating accusations against the departments.
In the texting groups, some of which included supervisors, officers bragged about beating up local residents, and debased Black people as “gorillas” and “water buffalo”. By Tuesday, more than 45 officers – nearly half of the city’s 99-person squad – had been implicated in the racist behavior. On 18 April, the city council voted unanimously to audit the department, which has failed to conduct internal reviews since 2017.
When Khan saw that officers with whom she had interacted described her in Islamophobic and sexualizing terms, she was horrified. “I just wanted to hide in a bubble and be away from all this,” she said. But she soon felt compelled to speak out.
“I remembered the whole reason I got involved was because of the victims and the people who have been brutalized and ultimately ended up getting killed by this department,” said Khan. “This is a point of justice.”
I don't think the "intolerant past" the're speaking of was as far back as slavery but what do I know...
Remember when trumpers went ballistic about law enforcement texts about donald trump?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/racist-police-text-scandal-us-100028643.html
In racist police text scandal, US town sees echoes of an intolerant past
Robin Buller in Antioch
Thu, April 27, 2023 at 6:00 AM EDT·11 min read
On 11 April, Khan discovered that she was among the numerous Antioch community members named in violently racist, misogynistic and anti-gay text messages exchanged by city law enforcement officers between 2019 and 2022. Those texts, first reported by the East Bay Times, surfaced out of a year-long investigation into police misconduct in Antioch and neighboring Pittsburg conducted by the FBI and the Contra Costa county district attorney’s office. The investigation was spurred by a litany of civil rights violations, assault incidents and cheating accusations against the departments.
In the texting groups, some of which included supervisors, officers bragged about beating up local residents, and debased Black people as “gorillas” and “water buffalo”. By Tuesday, more than 45 officers – nearly half of the city’s 99-person squad – had been implicated in the racist behavior. On 18 April, the city council voted unanimously to audit the department, which has failed to conduct internal reviews since 2017.
When Khan saw that officers with whom she had interacted described her in Islamophobic and sexualizing terms, she was horrified. “I just wanted to hide in a bubble and be away from all this,” she said. But she soon felt compelled to speak out.
“I remembered the whole reason I got involved was because of the victims and the people who have been brutalized and ultimately ended up getting killed by this department,” said Khan. “This is a point of justice.”
And of course its not "systemic"...
Its not like elected councilmen are killing black employees today right?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m-kkk-reprehensible-n-word-191130051.html
Former Oklahoma councilman murdered Black employee, buried body under septic tank
Angel Saunders
Wed, April 26, 2023 at 11:37 AM EDT·2 min read
Yesterday (April 25), a white former Oklahoma councilman was found guilty of murdering his Black employee. The crime happened in 2021, and officials found the victim’s body buried under a septic tank.
According to Oklahoma’s News 4, it took a jury just two hours to reach a verdict. On Sept. 29, 2021, Brent Mack’s daughter reported the 50-year-old missing after telling authorities no one had seen or heard from him in over a week. His last known date of communication with anybody was on Sept. 20. His boss, Dan Triplett, became an immediate suspect. During the trial, Mack’s daughter testified that her father said, on more than one occasion, “If I ever go missing, Dan did it.”
Officials discovered Mack’s body on Oct. 21, 2021. His remains were hidden under a septic tank, and a medical examiner confirmed he was shot in his back. His injuries also included fractured ribs and a perforated lung. His cause of death was classified as a homicide. Triplett initially told Mack’s daughter that he fired the 50-year-old after a confrontation with a customer, gave him a $1,000 severance package, and dropped him off at an Oklahoma laundromat. Police checked Triplett’s story and saw him on surveillance footage driving past the laundromat, never stopping with Mack.
Its not like elected councilmen are killing black employees today right?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m-kkk-reprehensible-n-word-191130051.html
Former Oklahoma councilman murdered Black employee, buried body under septic tank
Angel Saunders
Wed, April 26, 2023 at 11:37 AM EDT·2 min read
Yesterday (April 25), a white former Oklahoma councilman was found guilty of murdering his Black employee. The crime happened in 2021, and officials found the victim’s body buried under a septic tank.
According to Oklahoma’s News 4, it took a jury just two hours to reach a verdict. On Sept. 29, 2021, Brent Mack’s daughter reported the 50-year-old missing after telling authorities no one had seen or heard from him in over a week. His last known date of communication with anybody was on Sept. 20. His boss, Dan Triplett, became an immediate suspect. During the trial, Mack’s daughter testified that her father said, on more than one occasion, “If I ever go missing, Dan did it.”
Officials discovered Mack’s body on Oct. 21, 2021. His remains were hidden under a septic tank, and a medical examiner confirmed he was shot in his back. His injuries also included fractured ribs and a perforated lung. His cause of death was classified as a homicide. Triplett initially told Mack’s daughter that he fired the 50-year-old after a confrontation with a customer, gave him a $1,000 severance package, and dropped him off at an Oklahoma laundromat. Police checked Triplett’s story and saw him on surveillance footage driving past the laundromat, never stopping with Mack.
And given that I am white AND Irish, just like the first slaves in America, I am part of the only group that's qualified to talk about this topic.
It's a non-issue to my people. We've moved on. The only reparations we want is for black race baiters like @RayGravesGhost to stop trying to steal our white privilege. We are the offended party here, we decide what reparations are in order, and we are good.
I’m wondering if James Baldwin would prefer to be known for his writing rather than his sleeping arrangements.I dunno but I know this guy was...Do you know who he is?
So would hundreds of other authors who would choose notoriety for their literary achievements regardless of their skin color, or their sexual preferences.
If that's what you're wondering about then then I question your knowledge of Baldwin because that's literally the achievemnt his literary work was about...not hiding his true identity
You somehow think Baldwin wanted not to be viewed as black or gay?
You missed his message entirely
Sorry that Baldwin's mixture of race and sexuality requires you to make up a more conservatively acceptable storyline
https://www.vice.com/en/article/8qmvnb/james-baldwins-queerness-was-inseparable-from-his-blackness
James Baldwin's Queerness Was Inseparable from His Blackness
But as political activism today frequently fails to be adequately intersectional, it's important to remember that not only was James Baldwin unapologetically black, but he was also unapologetically queer. For every The Fire Next Time, Baldwin's 1963 book of "letters" about the racial injustices he experienced growing up in Harlem, he also wrote a Go Tell It on the Mountain, his 1953 novel about a young black boy discovering himself, featuring a number of allusions to his developing homosexuality. And for every Notes of a Native Son, his 1955 collection of essays about black life during the early civil rights era, he also had a Giovanni's Room, his most directly homoerotic work. When his American publisher refused to release it, fearing its gay subplots would alienate his core audience, he published it in England instead. For Baldwin, it was important to be completely honest in his writings, no matter what that may have revealed about his personal identity.
Baldwin didn't believe that all white people were innately evil, and he held hope that the state of race relations could improve in America, but that didn't stop him from being openly critical against white America. The elegance and poise with which Baldwin could point the finger back at his oppressors is unmatched; he may be the only man that could simply shrug and chuckle at Dick Cavett's tone-deaf question of "Why aren't the negroes optimistic [about their futures]?" before calmly replying, "Well, I don't think there's much hope for [us, black people], to tell you the truth." And he discussed queer sexuality, specifically for those who were black in America, just as gracefully. Baldwin's edition of The Last Interview includes a conversation between the author and journalist Richard Goldstein about being gay in America. Obviously, it also touched on blackness—primarily because Baldwin believed that race and sexuality "have always been entwined." But Baldwin's summation of what separates black homosexuals from their white counterparts is still perhaps one of his most insightful lessons. After Goldstein, who is gay, mentioned feeling distinct from his straight white peers, Baldwin told him that his feelings of "otherness" were the result of feeling like he had been "placed outside a certain safety to which you think you were born." Those of us who are both black and gay, however, experience life quite differently. "The sexual question comes after the question of color," Baldwin told Goldstein. "Long before the question of sexuality comes into it," a black gay person is already "menaced and marked because he's black."
While being gay is just one more marginalized identity that black people are forced to contend with, Baldwin explains that for white people, being gay is simply an unexpected anomaly, whereupon they realize that they are no longer at the top of the social food chain. Baldwin maintained that Caucasian feelings of otherness based on sexuality lay in "direct proportion to [their] sense of feeling cheated of the advantages which accrue to white people in a white society." It's not a struggle for them, so much as a "bewilderment and complaint." According to Baldwin, the origins of racism lay more in white people's refusal to give up power than in any innate desire to truly despise another human being. "They thought vengeance was theirs to take," he said, describing how the colonialist mind works. To him, the dismantling and ultimate destruction of racism could come after white people truly took the time to understand the value of human dignity. But he also acknowledged that such epiphanies don't occur out of the blue—that's why he believed in the possibilities of coalitions. Baldwin admitted that he believed the (white) gay rights movement and the civil rights movement could align themselves, but only because both groups had experienced oppression from others who feared their prosperity.
I've always understood that as more employer and employee. There wasn't a complex economy with minimum wages, health insurance and 401k's in those days.
Wow this is cool! If you are white and of Irish descent as I am, Hiden is clearing the way for us to get reparations for slavery!
My people deserve acknowledgement. Thank you Hiden!
You’re an angry person.
In a thread that serves as a refuge from history...reality...or anything resembling the truth...to make some white people here feel better about themselves by lying about slavery...
...is somehow a sign that "I'm an angry person" ? 🤣
Strangely reminicient of what we just watched happen in Tennessee...
Cause he's not getting slavery reparations. Shoulda been born white and Irish! Cha-Ching!!!
malone is salivating for those indentured servant handouts....
But he's behind this guy in line...so he may get nothing
But he's behind this guy in line...so he may get nothing
So...you’re Black? And young, I’m guessing?
You don’t have to answer but it helps me understand who you are and where you’re coming from.
He's usually coming from somewhere why out in LEFT FIELD....
He was an angry person long before this thread. Personally he's beyond my reach, by his own choice, so I ignore him. Not because I hate him but because I refuse to allow him to make me angry over the racist, hate-filled diatribes that he's known for on this board.
I pity Ray.
Yes I'm black...and in my late 50s
Does that make me "young" in your eyes?
So what more do you understand about me from those answers?
Take this thread as an example...
Someone posts an easily debunkable lie that the 1st slave owner was black
Does race and/or age matter in proving that was a lie?
Seems to me that the historical record should be all that's needed to determine if its a lie or not, right?
Did you even bother to look at the video in the OP?
That video makes the claim that slavery didn't really exist until 1661 when the Slave Laws were passed in Virginia. And then attempts to claim that Johnson was the 1st slave owner of John Punch by a court decision in
1650.
But the video states [in 1640] Punch was sentenced to lifelong servitude for attempting to escape his indentured status along with 2 other men (white) who escaped with him but did not recieve a lifetime sentence for the same act.
So being sentenced to lifelong servitude in 1640 didn't make his owner at that time the first slave owner but Johnson's case 10 years later did?
I don't think I should have to explain to anyone...black/white young or old that the statement is wrong
It makes no chronological sense
So should I understand perpsectives here that supported the OP to be influenced by the supporters race/age in the same way that you believe it affects mine?
Here's your post on the thread...
By your own admission indentured servitude was different from slavery because of an end date & set value
If you go back and read my linked sources that was NOT the case for blacks after John Punch's documented conviction and sentence
So is your perspective shaped by your race & age?
If so, how is it affected in your opinion?
I’ll say this...my first statement on this subject was very clear. I stand by that and see no reason to justify it.
You’re in your “late 50’s” and I’m 73 years old. In terms of history and what you and I saw and remember - that is a significant difference because of what took place through your toddler and earliest school years.
What we each recall about our early youth. As a little girl I saw those Colored/White signs. I heard the slurs. The redneck resistance.
You and I have lived through the Civil Rights movement, but you were too young to get on a bus and forced to follow those signs to the back of the bus. Too young to be forced to attend a segregated school but old enough to live in the era of what some call “affirmative action” when finally doors were opened to you and your generation.
You were too young to remember Selma, the murder of Medgar Evers, the assassination of MLK or Malcolm X except maybe through seeing the reactions of anguish and anger and fear of grown family members. The marches by young black activists my age who literally took their life in their hands on the streets and on campuses across the country. Yet you seem to disregard so much of what they accomplished
When I think about it now I saw living history.
You are the BENEFICIARY of their courage and strength. From the strong activists like Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis, to countless others like Andrew Young who have changed America and to current citizens today who live and work and prosper in an imperfect country that does not deny its past but understands the importance of striving to be better every day. We can’t afford to slide backwards and there’s a real danger that some want to tear up the best of what America has.
Your anger is really unfortunate and it prevents any worthwhile points you make from being accepted.
Shouting at white people on a message board is a waste of your time.
You’re in your “late 50’s” and I’m 73 years old. In terms of history and what you and I saw and remember - that is a significant difference because of what took place through your toddler and earliest school years.
What we each recall about our early youth. As a little girl I saw those Colored/White signs. I heard the slurs. The redneck resistance.
You and I have lived through the Civil Rights movement, but you were too young to get on a bus and forced to follow those signs to the back of the bus. Too young to be forced to attend a segregated school but old enough to live in the era of what some call “affirmative action” when finally doors were opened to you and your generation.
You were too young to remember Selma, the murder of Medgar Evers, the assassination of MLK or Malcolm X except maybe through seeing the reactions of anguish and anger and fear of grown family members. The marches by young black activists my age who literally took their life in their hands on the streets and on campuses across the country. Yet you seem to disregard so much of what they accomplished
When I think about it now I saw living history.
You are the BENEFICIARY of their courage and strength. From the strong activists like Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis, to countless others like Andrew Young who have changed America and to current citizens today who live and work and prosper in an imperfect country that does not deny its past but understands the importance of striving to be better every day. We can’t afford to slide backwards and there’s a real danger that some want to tear up the best of what America has.
Your anger is really unfortunate and it prevents any worthwhile points you make from being accepted.
Shouting at white people on a message board is a waste of your time.
To be honest, I pity all trolls. Because if you troll all day every day, you've got some hole in your life that you think trolling will fill.
And what a way for @RayGravesGhost to honor blacks that fought the dems for civil rights before him.....by blindly defending the same dems today.
As we all know...lefties have NEVER been accused of being the sharpest tool in the shed. RGG is a perfect example of this. Just an old racist lefty that wants reparations from US...because life treated him so unfairly! LOLOLOL
So unfairly that he only has multiple degrees from UF.
Reggie is a bigtime liberal- he knows that the KKK were all dems but he will try to tell you it was pubs
He knows that not one dem voted for the civil rights act
He lnows Jim Crowe laws were all passed by dems
And he knows there were black slave owners
And above all he wants the socialism his dem party is pushing
Obviously all those degrees did little for his intelligence quotient
He knows that not one dem voted for the civil rights act
He lnows Jim Crowe laws were all passed by dems
And he knows there were black slave owners
And above all he wants the socialism his dem party is pushing
Obviously all those degrees did little for his intelligence quotient
Good point. He must be telling the truth about that, when has @RayGravesGhost ever lied about anything here???
You mean you can't defend it because your own description of Irish indentured servitude WAS NOT the black experience was it?
You CHOOSE not to justify it because from the court case of John Punch race was the defining issue in how the law was applied to whites versus blacks regarding freedom
You saw & heard...but were you ever the receipiant of or the directed target of racial discrimination?
I have
70s
Has your family ever had an all white neighborhood try to prevent you from buying a house?
I have
Have you ever seen a family member have a beer bottle thrown and hit them for walking around a town while on vacation?
I have
80s
Have you ever had a bottle thrown at you on a college campus at night walking back to your dorm?
I have
90s
Have you ever had your car keyed the length of the car
Had the 2 tires slashed on the side of the car that got keyed
And had a sticker put on the car with a cartoon drawing of a white cave girl being doggystyled by a black cartoon character with the words "This is your daughter...You can thank integration" stuck on the hood?
I have
Have you ever been attacked by 2 men in broad daylight for watching your college football team?
I had to fight my way out of being cornered in the bathroom
I have
I could go on with other personal experiences but do I really need to?
So imagine what my response would be to encounter someone who wants to tell me I've never personally experienced REAL racism because of my age
And the general problem is that people your age think racial discrimination somehow magically disappeared immediately after 1965.
It didn't.
I wasn't involved in segregation or forced busing growing up in NY in the 70s
But I was old enough to experience Howard Beach, Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, and the Central Park 5
I've lived during a conservative SCOTUS repealling the enforcement of the Voting RIghts Act
I've lived during a "War on Drugs" and mass incarceration
I've lived during the reemergence of minority political power since Reconstruction
I've lived during an end to Apartheid and the election of the 1st black president
There's a lot that has occured ub rgw struggle for civil rights that people younger than you have lived through
You act like all we should do is look back at the 60s and be thankful
You saw it...I've met & known living history
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is one of those young black activists you speak of...she's also a friend of my family
My grand aunt was her kids nanny and raised her children when she was at PBS Newshour
You may know better know her as one of the first two black students admitted into UGA
Her admission was BEFORE Meredith at Mississippi...you should go read about her
True historical figure...my discussions with her don't resemble anything you're saying here
My father was the first black dean at his college, my uncle was Professor Emeritus at FAMU, and another uncle (close family friend) was one of the first black Phd professors at UF...his work is a part of a number of univerisities in the state of Florida....including your alma mater.
So I don't need to watch TV or videos to know what those who preceeded me had to do to achieve...
I have those people in my inner circle
Thanks for the lecture
Have you looked at what Angela Davis or Andrew Young are saying today...right now?
They both support BLM...they don't agree with you
So its kind of sickening listening to you even invoke their names
Just like you did trying to rewrite Baldwin's legacy...
And Stokley Carmichael?
I don't even find that sickening...I find it hilarious coming from the likes of you
Not denying this country's past means not agreeing with the BS that the OP of this thread tries to pass off as truth
Remember that story I told you about my car?
That happened when I was on graduate internship with one of the oldest & biggest companies in America
I didn't bother to tell you I was the first MBA they had hired in over a decade at the time
I suspect I was the first black MBA they had EVER hired
Of course I'm a beneficiary of those who came before me...
As you were a beneficiary of a system of racial bias that existed when you were younger prior to those doors of competition being opened
The difference between you & I is that I acknowledge it...lived it...and succeeded
....and you claim you didn't benefit from it
And that statement is the final proof that you simply don't get it
Adherence to what's set forth in the US Constitution doesn't require your "acceptance"
Those rules, goals, and principles stand alone...already "accepted" as American
Telling people that they should wait for equality & justice isn't just "unfortunate"...
Its un-American
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what I don’t get about you reggie is how after all you listed you still vote democrap and are still a liberal and are still filled with hate - no one can change the past. My family owned slaves - nothing I can do or change about that - am I ashamed - no. it was a different time and place. I wil pray for you teggie in hopes that Jesus will st some point cleanse you of your hate as carrying all that will wear you down.
What I don't understand about you is that you really think black people are going to vote for a party that opposed Civil RIghts legislation, has blocked and repealed the Voting RIghts Act, has admitted to supressing the votes of minoritites, opposed expanding healthcare to minorities, have moved to strike black history in America from classrooms, etc.
I've had 1 question that continuously remains to be unanswered by any "conservative" here
WHat exactly has the GOP done for the black community since walking away from them in 1965?
And to the constant lie you and others love to post...Why do you think I'm angry or full of hate?
As @sadgator says "I've have a great life" being concerned about others less fortunate than me equates to anger or hate in your opinion?
Ridiculous stuff... 😂
I'm going to post in its entirety a little while but here's a snippet...Is this anger/hate or the truth?
I actually can see why “Reggie” (y’all seem to know RGG’s name so my apologies if that’s not his name) is a person whose life experience has hardened him.
But his bitterness is chewing him up on the inside more than his angry words are tearing up nasty white folks on the outside.
I’m old enough to remember at 7 years old getting on a city bus in Jacksonville in my Catholic school uniform and being told by the semi toothless bus driver “you Catholic kids get on to the back and sit with the “n*****” maids. He was probably the same “good Christian” who handed out the snakes at his backwoods primitive church on Sunday.
I spent the summer of 1962 in Hattiesburg Mississippi with my Aunt and Uncle when they’d just moved there for a job transfer. We went to Mass one Sunday when the priest made the announcement that effective immediately the Catholic school would be integrated on orders to integrate and there were shouts followed by some people getting up and walking out of the church.
We couldn’t go swimming at the city pool because they had closed it rather than let “colored” people in.
I was going into the 8th grade and my sister was going into the 4th. We came home on a Greyhound bus by ourselves (unheard of today) from Hattiesburg through Mobile where they had an armed guard making sure no “colored” people tried to use a “whites only” bathroom.
I can remember we stopped in Bonifay and the driver said “we’re stopping for an hour and y’all folks can get food in the bus stop cafe. You coloreds can get something out the back window”.
I remember separate water fountains at the Winn Dixie where my Mother shopped. I remember the lunch counter for whites only at the Grant’s facing Hemming Park in downtown Jax.
And I remember my parents didn’t talk about why things were the way they were so I never understood it. They were blue collar people who kept their heads down and their mouths shut.
And they always voted Democrat.
But his bitterness is chewing him up on the inside more than his angry words are tearing up nasty white folks on the outside.
I’m old enough to remember at 7 years old getting on a city bus in Jacksonville in my Catholic school uniform and being told by the semi toothless bus driver “you Catholic kids get on to the back and sit with the “n*****” maids. He was probably the same “good Christian” who handed out the snakes at his backwoods primitive church on Sunday.
I spent the summer of 1962 in Hattiesburg Mississippi with my Aunt and Uncle when they’d just moved there for a job transfer. We went to Mass one Sunday when the priest made the announcement that effective immediately the Catholic school would be integrated on orders to integrate and there were shouts followed by some people getting up and walking out of the church.
We couldn’t go swimming at the city pool because they had closed it rather than let “colored” people in.
I was going into the 8th grade and my sister was going into the 4th. We came home on a Greyhound bus by ourselves (unheard of today) from Hattiesburg through Mobile where they had an armed guard making sure no “colored” people tried to use a “whites only” bathroom.
I can remember we stopped in Bonifay and the driver said “we’re stopping for an hour and y’all folks can get food in the bus stop cafe. You coloreds can get something out the back window”.
I remember separate water fountains at the Winn Dixie where my Mother shopped. I remember the lunch counter for whites only at the Grant’s facing Hemming Park in downtown Jax.
And I remember my parents didn’t talk about why things were the way they were so I never understood it. They were blue collar people who kept their heads down and their mouths shut.
And they always voted Democrat.
