In regard to the current controversy over Black Lives Matters it is easy to overlook the fact that blacks in this country faced intense discrimination, even after Emancipation. We have come far as a nation on this score. How far we have come is easy to see when we look back at the remarkable journey of white, conservative Republican journalist Ray Sprigle, who in 1948 journeyed through the Jim Crow South and wrote about what he had observed. Go here to the website of author Bill Steigerwald to read Sprigle’s account.
Excellent point. Holding Blacks back is the Democrat Party which bribes them with welfare and keeps them under educated with poor schooling. Democrat politicians are the new slave masters.
“Democrat politicians are the new slave masters.”
They’ve never stopped being that.
We still have a race relations regime which consists of muddling through passably in every day life while the standards and practices of public life are obnoxious and silly. It seems to get worse every year.
In NYC, They’re legally taking out the TR statue at the American Museum of Natural History. They are not removing from the dime the face of FDR, who sent tens of thousands of American citizens into concentration camps.
Japanese Lives Matter.
Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not rob.
I became a racist approximately three weeks ago. My new motto is “It wasn’t me.” I am not guilty of any crime I did not commit. And, I treat everyone fairly and equally, just as I want them to do to me.
I don’t care what crazy people, criminals and imbeciles think of it. It’s liberating.