Consider this post to be an early edition of Flashback Friday.
Imagine a group of men beating Sammy Davis, Jr. while he performed in Jackson. Such barbarism took place in Birmingham in 1956. Legendary Nat King Cole attempted to perform two shows the night of April 10, 1956 - one for a white audience, and one for a black audience - but received punches instead of plaudits.
Amazingly enough, the Clarion-Ledger published several articles on the attack.
April 11, 1956
April 12, 1956
The irony of this article.
April 13, 1956
However, the Birmingham police and City Judge wasted no time in trying the accused.
April 14, 1956
The attack must have spooked the segregationist Clarion-Ledger because it published this editorial on April 15:
The court convicted the thugs in four days and sentenced them to serve some time in jail.
April 19, 1956
Prosecutions continued.
May 12, 1956
However, the convicts appealed. Their sentences were reduced from jail time to meager fines.
November 7, 1956
November 15, 1956
December 8, 1956
Two Yankees attended the concert, thrilled at the chance to see Nat King Cole perform. Little did they know they would witness some rather distasteful history that night. National tv show? Playing by the segregationist rules? None of it mattered for these thugs. However, the crowd was pretty mad at the klukkers who assaulted the stage and screamed obscenities at them.
I wonder what all parties would think of the degenerate mock sex that passes for dancing and the ignorant mumble-rap that passes for hip-hop and R&B these days?
A lot of people back then thought that African American music would lead to reefer consumption, delinquency, premarital sex, crime, and orher social ills.
Good thing today we know that they were all just a bunch of ignorant racists.
What is your point? Why are you bringing up crap that happened 60 years ago. In 1956 all sorts of injustice happened. As in every year since 1956 to the present.
What’s interesting is that people have a problem when history involving racism is brought up but have no problem with the confederate flag. Gotta love Mississippi
Both Mr. Mott and Mr. Kelly had told me that Yazoo City was perhaps the only municipality in Mississippi that managed to integrate the schools without violence. I asked Haley Barbour why he thought that was so.
“Because the business community wouldn’t stand for it,” he said. “You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. If you had a job, you’d lose it. If you had a store, they’d see nobody shopped there. We didn’t have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City.”
In interviews Barbour doesn’t have much to say about growing up in the midst of the civil rights revolution. “I just don’t remember it as being that bad,” he said. “I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in ’62. He spoke out at the old fairground and it was full of people, black and white.”
Did you go? I asked.
“Sure, I was there with some of my friends.”
I asked him why he went out.
“We wanted to hear him speak.”
I asked what King had said that day.
“I don’t really remember. The truth is, we couldn’t hear very well. We were sort of out there on the periphery. We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do. We paid more attention to the girls than to King.”
I don't know who Mr Mott or Mr Kelly is, but I would question their statement about Yazoo City being the only place that integrated peacefully. Having lived through the early stages of integration, then the mass integration over Christmas holidays, I can name a few towns that did so peacefully. I agree with Barbour's comments though, it was largely due to the Citizens Councils in towns where the CC consisted largely of downtown businessmen that the integration went smooth. It was,all about business and reality at that point.
Too bad some of our Northern brethren didn't have Citizens Councils in their cities - maybe they could have peacefully integrated their schools in 1970 as well.
@7:56, 8:08, 8:59, & 10:20, do you all really have to ask??? Have you not heard of race baiting?
The left constantly brings up these ½ century old + injustices to take the spot light off of their high crime, drug infested, fatherless family, no morals in the home failures they call cities.
Can you image the field day MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, et al would be having if Republican run cities had the crime of Jackson, the homelessness with shit & heroin needles in their streets and on their sidewalks as is the case in places like LA and San Fran?
Leftist politicians and their propagandist’s posing as journalist use this “divide and conquer” tactic to……divide and conquer.
And the sad thing is, conservative so-called journalists are willing to sell their souls for $$$ by keeping the hatred alive between blacks and white.
@10:44PM, thanks for posting this as most do not research history objectively in hopes of the truth and therefore have no clue what really happened day to day in Mississippi. The Mississippi Delta was like a whole other state in many ways, and in many ways it still is today.
Now, under the heading of objectivity, let’s be honest as to why those in the Mississippi Delta, in this case Yazoo City passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town…
I'm with 7:56 and 8:59 - Why drag this shit up?? AGAIN ! !
It makes no sense.
KingFish, you're wrong for doing this. All it is doing is rubbing alcohol and salt in a festering wound that will never heal because dragging crap like this up again will never allow it to heal. EVER!
I'll be surprised if you put this in the comments.
Yes, what a wonderful reminder about "the struggle". How nice. Especially after the top notch reparations hearings this week. I can't wait for this weekends Clarion-Ledgers front page. I'm sure it will be another racial hit piece. So excited !!!!!
Wow. Some people just have to get upset. JJ posts historical stuff all the time. The Kingfish came across this story a couple of days ago. Most people under the age of 65 don't even know about this story and yes, it's pretty interesting.
The wounds have been festering for as long as I have lived and the racists across this country, especially in Mississippi, wish to pour salt on them. Pointing out some of the more embarrassing racist moments from the past can shed some light on why there is a great deal of resentment among blacks for their poverty and lack of opportunity resulting from government continuing to operate to keep them in their place.
But in the foreseeable future miscegenation will cure all the racial ills in Mississippi. A walk around Wal-Mart any day of the week will show where the future is headed.
6:20 - Most of what you wrote is probably accurate. However, Yazoo City was not a town dependent on agricultural labor, nor is it in the Delta.
Regardless, look at it now. You'll see as many black men walking and riding bicycles as you will driving old cars. And most of them have nothing else to do but hang out at the carwash, vacant buildings and the several store-joints that sell chicken.
To their credit, the town has posted a few 'no loitering' and 'no open container' signs.
Wow, your fragility is showing. KF can’t post a little modern history without offending all of these civil war scholars. This story isn’t that bad, I guess if he delved into Quincy Jones’ , mother and grandparents making a midnight run out Vicksburg heads will explode.
I remember my father telling me how they almost killed Chuck Berry over in Meridian one night for trying to "date" a white woman: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/meridian-ms-negro-rocknroll-star-charles-berry-awaits-news-photo/517725522
These same jerks who do not wish to be reminded of the very real history of racist activity which defined the south for hundreds of years will be the first to defend their "heritage" and decry those who would remove monuments to the old south. Anything which does not sanitize their past behavior and demonize those who do not think like them is race-baiting and red propaganda. It's strange that when one sees clearly racist remarks and criticism of black activity and leadership you never see these same people concerned about race-baiting or "healing old wounds". It's obvious that there is still a need for publication of this very real history. If not, in a few days,these jerks will swear it never happened!
8:59 Articles like this are important in an atmosphere where so many people like yourself think places like Jackson were once heaven and are now hell. You might understand that everything depends on who and what you are or were. If you were a black man, even a very famous black man, this heaven was your hell. You may have every reason to want to return to those days, he does not. When you talk about how how good things used to be you might think about that. But I really don't expect you ever will.
How many more God Damned times will we be forced to watch Mississippi Burning while listening to the Battle Hymn of The Republic? Maybe the current trend toward approving reparations will solve it all and get all demographics in line with reasonable behavior and work ethic. That's it...find a way to decide who to pay and how much and all this shit will reverse itself.
I wonder how many of those pissing and moaning about KF bringing up ancient history fly the stars and bars on the back of their pickup truck or on their flagpoles.
5:12 You have every right to be so pissed. Being forced to watch Mississippi Burning, while being forced to listen to the Battle Hymn of the Republic is torture enough, but a trend towards reparations, that's the last straw! A trend is a terrible thing! My God, what's next, being forced to watch Ghosts of Mississippi? Oh My!
"I wonder how many of those pissing and moaning about KF bringing up ancient history fly the stars and bars on the back of their pickup truck or on their flagpoles.June 20, 2019 at 5:15 PM"
Not sure what that would have to do with the topic. And I don't need to wonder - I'm confident you're totally ignorant of the history of The Confederate First National (The Stars and Bars), but you've bought the Kool-Aid and you suck on the jug every day.
I'm willing to wager fifteen bucks you can not even recognize or identify The Stars and Bars, much less know a damned thing about it. But, you're in good company since Kingfish is right there with you.
8:13AM, modern history’s the weekly killings that will approach 100 in JUST THE CITY OF JACKSON, MS alone THIS YEAR that are being committed by victims of ½ century old social programs designed to have black folk “voting Democrat for the next hundred years;” although leftist LBJ didn’t put it so politely.
Race baiting is bringing up specific events that happened before many if not most people alive today were even born that’s designed to divide…including the 6.76 murders of blacks PER YEAR IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI via lynching’s; without telling the story of how many Mississippians were against such behavior, even back then.
It’s the leftist scam and conservative’s that make $$$ off of clicks have gotten have decided you get it on it.
I thank GOD I am blessed enough not to have to earn a living pitting people against one another by constantly bringing up old events that almost never ever happen anymore.
Truth will always be problematic for some people. They want to pick and choose the facts which support their opinion and suppress the other facts. This has been especially true in the South. They don't mind reminding you of the failings of LBJ and FDR and their "social programs" which lead to today's liberal chaos, but don't dare document the sheer terror and injustice pressed upon the African American community which naturally spawned distrust of whites. If you do you are race-baiting and fomenting division. Their point of view has been hashed and rehashed a thousand times and they never get tired or upset when we hear it again, but present one kernel of the WHOLE truth from our past and suddenly they get sick and tired of bringing up old events from a past "we ought to forget". Which past?
You want to have a refreshing laugh after all this race-schmace drivel? Go find an essay in The Bitter Southerner called “Are You a Seg Academy Alum Too? Let’s Talk,” and have a barf bag handy. The author, as one commenter pointed out, sent her own two kids to a private school, a good 40-plus years after the glorious desegregation. The hypocrisy of the sanctimonious left—-oh, my stars. And bars. When these people say, “let’s talk,” they mean...let’s only talk if you agree with me. Opposing views unwelcome!
I lived my first 25 years in Birmingham in the late 60s through mid 80s, and I could not leave fast enough. There are nice people, but the racism is still there, just living under what what some southerners call "hospitality" while they judge and hate those not like them. I still keep in touch with some distant family and friends and very little seems to have changed.
Trollfest '07 was such a success that Jackson Jambalaya will once again host Trollfest '09. Catch this great event which will leave NE Jackson & Fondren in flames. Othor Cain and his band, The Black Power Structure headline the night while Sonjay Poontang returns for an encore performance. Former Frank Melton bodyguard Marcus Wright makes his premier appearance at Trollfest singing "I'm a Sweet Transvestite" from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Kamikaze will sing his new hit, “How I sold out to da Man.” Robbie Bell again performs: “Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be Bells” and “Any friend of Ed Peters is a friend of mine”. After the show, Ms. Bell will autograph copies of her mug shot photos. In a salute to “Dancing with the Stars”, Ms. Bell and Hinds County District Attorney Robert Smith will dance the Wango Tango.
Wrestling returns, except this time it will be a Battle Royal with Othor Cain, Ben Allen, Kim Wade, Haley Fisackerly, Alan Lange, and “Big Cat” Donna Ladd all in the ring at the same time. The Battle Royal will be in a steel cage, no time limit, no referee, and the losers must leave town. Marshand Crisler will be the honorary referee (as it gives him a title without actually having to do anything). Meet KIM Waaaaaade at the Entergy Tent. For five pesos, Kim will sell you a chance to win a deed to a crack house on Ridgeway Street stuffed in the Howard Industries pinata. Don't worry if the pinata is beaten to shreds, as Mr. Wade has Jose, Emmanuel, and Carlos, all illegal immigrants, available as replacements for the it. Upon leaving the Entergy tent, fig leaves will be available in case Entergy literally takes everything you have as part of its Trollfest ticket price adjustment charge.
Donna Ladd of The Jackson Free Press will give several classes on learning how to write. Smearing, writing without factchecking, and reporting only one side of a story will be covered. A donation to pay their taxes will be accepted and she will be signing copies of their former federal tax liens. Ms. Ladd will give a dramatic reading of her two award-winning essays (They received The Jackson Free Press "Best Of" awards.) "Why everything is always about me" and "Why I cover murders better than anyone else in Jackson".
In the spirit of helping those who are less fortunate, Trollfest '09 adopts a cause for which a portion of the proceeds and donations will be donated: Keeping Frank Melton in his home. The “Keep Frank Melton From Being Homeless” booth will sell chances for five dollars to pin the tail on the jackass. John Reeves has graciously volunteered to be the jackass for this honorable excursion into saving Frank's ass. What's an ass between two friends after all? If Mr. Reeves is unable to um, perform, Speaker Billy McCoy has also volunteered as when the word “jackass” was mentioned he immediately ran as fast as he could to sign up. In order to help clean up the legal profession, Adam Kilgore of the Mississippi Bar will be giving away free, round-trip plane tickets to the North Pole where they keep their bar complaint forms (which are NOT available online). If you don't want to go to the North Pole, you can enjoy Brant Brantley's (of the Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance) free guided tours of the quicksand field over by High Street where all complaints against judges disappear. If for some reason you are unable to control yourself, never fear; Judge Houston Patton will operate his jail where no lawyers are needed or allowed as you just sit there for minutes... hours.... months...years until he decides he is tired of you sitting in his jail. Do not think Judge Patton is a bad judge however as he plans to serve free Mad Dog 20/20 to all inmates.
Trollfest '09 is a pet-friendly event as well. Feel free to bring your dog with you and do not worry if your pet gets hungry, as employees of the Jackson Zoo will be on hand to provide some of their animals as food when it gets to be feeding time for your little loved one.
Relax at the Fox News Tent. Since there are only three blonde reporters in Jackson (being blonde is a requirement for working at Fox News), Megan and Kathryn from WAPT and Wendy from WLBT will be on loan to Fox. To gain admittance to the VIP section, bring either your Republican Party ID card or a Rebel Flag. Bringing both and a torn-up Obama yard sign will entitle you to free drinks served by Megan, Wendy, and Kathryn. Get your tickets now. Since this is an event for trolls, no ID is required. Just bring the hate. Bring the family, Trollfest '09 is for EVERYONE!!!
This is definitely a Beaver production. Note: Security provided by INS.
Trollfest '07
Jackson Jambalaya is the home of Trollfest '07. Catch this great event which promises to leave NE Jackson & Fondren in flames. Sonjay Poontang and his band headline the night with a special steel cage, no time limit "loser must leave town" bout between Alan Lange and "Big Cat"Donna Ladd following afterwards. Kamikaze will perform his new song F*** Bush, he's still a _____. Did I mention there was no referee? Dr. Heddy Matthias and Lori Gregory will face off in the undercard dueling with dangling participles and other um, devices. Robbie Bell will perform Her two latest songs: My Best Friends are in the Media and Mama's, Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be George Bell. Sid Salter of The Clarion-Ledger will host "Pin the Tail on the Trial Lawyer", sponsored by State Farm.
There will be a hugging booth where in exchange for your young son, Frank Melton will give you a loooong hug. Trollfest will have a dunking booth where Muhammed the terrorist will curse you to Allah as you try to hit a target that will drop him into a vat of pig grease. However, in the true spirit of Separate But Equal, Don Imus and someone from NE Jackson will also sit in the dunking booth for an equal amount of time. Tom Head will give a reading for two hours on why he can't figure out who the hell he is. Cliff Cargill will give lessons with his .80 caliber desert eagle, using Frank Melton photos as targets. Tackleberry will be on hand for an autograph session. KIM Waaaaaade will be passing out free titles and deeds to crackhouses formerly owned by The Wood Street Players.
If you get tired come relax at the Fox News Tent. To gain admittance to the VIP section, bring either your Republican Party ID card or a Rebel Flag. Bringing both will entitle you to free drinks.Get your tickets now. Since this is an event for trolls, no ID is required, just bring the hate. Bring the family, Trollfest '07 is for EVERYONE!!!
33 comments:
By now those who attacked him have met our Maker- and have been righteously judged.
Ah, the good ole days. I bet there was less crime back then too. Birmingham, like Jackson, was actually a nice city.
So what does this have to do with anything in today's world other than stir up the races against each other all over again ?
Kingfish' timing of these posts is interesting. Does he have an issue with our confederate flag waving state-wide candidates from Rankin County?
I wonder what all parties would think of the degenerate mock sex that passes for dancing and the ignorant mumble-rap that passes for hip-hop and R&B these days?
A lot of people back then thought that African American music would lead to reefer consumption, delinquency, premarital sex, crime, and orher social ills.
Good thing today we know that they were all just a bunch of ignorant racists.
What is your point? Why are you bringing up crap that happened 60 years ago.
In 1956 all sorts of injustice happened. As in every year since 1956 to the present.
What’s interesting is that people have a problem when history involving racism is brought up but have no problem with the confederate flag. Gotta love Mississippi
It’s 2019. Victims and perps have been dead for decades.
Both Mr. Mott and Mr. Kelly had told me that Yazoo City was perhaps the only municipality in Mississippi that managed to integrate the schools without violence. I asked Haley Barbour why he thought that was so.
“Because the business community wouldn’t stand for it,” he said. “You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. If you had a job, you’d lose it. If you had a store, they’d see nobody shopped there. We didn’t have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City.”
In interviews Barbour doesn’t have much to say about growing up in the midst of the civil rights revolution. “I just don’t remember it as being that bad,” he said. “I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in ’62. He spoke out at the old fairground and it was full of people, black and white.”
Did you go? I asked.
“Sure, I was there with some of my friends.”
I asked him why he went out.
“We wanted to hear him speak.”
I asked what King had said that day.
“I don’t really remember. The truth is, we couldn’t hear very well. We were sort of out there on the periphery. We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do. We paid more attention to the girls than to King.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20101222020016/https://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/boy-yazoo-city_523551.html?page=3
I don't know who Mr Mott or Mr Kelly is, but I would question their statement about Yazoo City being the only place that integrated peacefully. Having lived through the early stages of integration, then the mass integration over Christmas holidays, I can name a few towns that did so peacefully. I agree with Barbour's comments though, it was largely due to the Citizens Councils in towns where the CC consisted largely of downtown businessmen that the integration went smooth. It was,all about business and reality at that point.
Too bad some of our Northern brethren didn't have Citizens Councils in their cities - maybe they could have peacefully integrated their schools in 1970 as well.
@7:56, 8:08, 8:59, & 10:20, do you all really have to ask??? Have you not heard of race baiting?
The left constantly brings up these ½ century old + injustices to take the spot light off of their high crime, drug infested, fatherless family, no morals in the home failures they call cities.
Can you image the field day MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, et al would be having if Republican run cities had the crime of Jackson, the homelessness with shit & heroin needles in their streets and on their sidewalks as is the case in places like LA and San Fran?
Leftist politicians and their propagandist’s posing as journalist use this “divide and conquer” tactic to……divide and conquer.
And the sad thing is, conservative so-called journalists are willing to sell their souls for $$$ by keeping the hatred alive between blacks and white.
@10:44PM, thanks for posting this as most do not research history objectively in hopes of the truth and therefore have no clue what really happened day to day in Mississippi. The Mississippi Delta was like a whole other state in many ways, and in many ways it still is today.
Now, under the heading of objectivity, let’s be honest as to why those in the Mississippi Delta, in this case Yazoo City passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town…
LABOR.
I'm with 7:56 and 8:59 - Why drag this shit up?? AGAIN ! !
It makes no sense.
KingFish, you're wrong for doing this. All it is doing is rubbing alcohol and salt in a festering wound that will never heal because dragging crap like this up again will never allow it to heal. EVER!
I'll be surprised if you put this in the comments.
1956 ?
Yes, what a wonderful reminder about "the struggle". How nice. Especially after the top notch reparations hearings this week. I can't wait for this weekends Clarion-Ledgers front page. I'm sure it will be another racial hit piece. So excited !!!!!
Wow. Some people just have to get upset. JJ posts historical stuff all the time. The Kingfish came across this story a couple of days ago. Most people under the age of 65 don't even know about this story and yes, it's pretty interesting.
It may be interesting to some. Others, not so much.
All it does is stir the hate pot again bringing back bad memories.
"Why bring this shit up?" 7:23.
The wounds have been festering for as long as I have lived and the racists across this country, especially in Mississippi, wish to pour salt on them. Pointing out some of the more embarrassing racist moments from the past can shed some light on why there is a great deal of resentment among blacks for their poverty and lack of opportunity resulting from government continuing to operate to keep them in their place.
But in the foreseeable future miscegenation will cure all the racial ills in Mississippi. A walk around Wal-Mart any day of the week will show where the future is headed.
6:20 - Most of what you wrote is probably accurate. However, Yazoo City was not a town dependent on agricultural labor, nor is it in the Delta.
Regardless, look at it now. You'll see as many black men walking and riding bicycles as you will driving old cars. And most of them have nothing else to do but hang out at the carwash, vacant buildings and the several store-joints that sell chicken.
To their credit, the town has posted a few 'no loitering' and 'no open container' signs.
Wow, your fragility is showing. KF can’t post a little modern history without offending all of these civil war scholars. This story isn’t that bad, I guess if he delved into Quincy Jones’ , mother and grandparents making a midnight run out Vicksburg heads will explode.
Ha Ha . A hundred people planned the attack, showed up at the concert and 6 rushed the stage.There's a lesson in there somewhere.
Damn there are some snowflakes up in here.
I remember my father telling me how they almost killed Chuck Berry over in Meridian one night for trying to "date" a white woman:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/meridian-ms-negro-rocknroll-star-charles-berry-awaits-news-photo/517725522
These same jerks who do not wish to be reminded of the very real history of racist activity which defined the south for hundreds of years will be the first to defend their "heritage" and decry those who would remove monuments to the old south. Anything which does not sanitize their past behavior and demonize those who do not think like them is race-baiting and red propaganda. It's strange that when one sees clearly racist remarks and criticism of black activity and leadership you never see these same people concerned about race-baiting or "healing old wounds". It's obvious that there is still a need for publication of this very real history. If not, in a few days,these jerks will swear it never happened!
8:59 Articles like this are important in an atmosphere where so many people like yourself think places like Jackson were once heaven and are now hell. You might understand that everything depends on who and what you are or were. If you were a black man, even a very famous black man, this heaven was your hell. You may have every reason to want to return to those days, he does not. When you talk about how how good things used to be you might think about that. But I really don't expect you ever will.
A great many in Mississippi wax nostalgic for the days when a man could "call a spade a spade." Change is slow but things are improving here.
How many more God Damned times will we be forced to watch Mississippi Burning while listening to the Battle Hymn of The Republic? Maybe the current trend toward approving reparations will solve it all and get all demographics in line with reasonable behavior and work ethic. That's it...find a way to decide who to pay and how much and all this shit will reverse itself.
I wonder how many of those pissing and moaning about KF bringing up ancient history fly the stars and bars on the back of their pickup truck or on their flagpoles.
5:12 You have every right to be so pissed. Being forced to watch Mississippi Burning, while being forced to listen to the Battle Hymn of the Republic is torture enough, but a trend towards reparations, that's the last straw! A trend is a terrible thing! My God, what's next, being forced to watch Ghosts of Mississippi? Oh My!
"I wonder how many of those pissing and moaning about KF bringing up ancient history fly the stars and bars on the back of their pickup truck or on their flagpoles.June 20, 2019 at 5:15 PM"
Not sure what that would have to do with the topic. And I don't need to wonder - I'm confident you're totally ignorant of the history of The Confederate First National (The Stars and Bars), but you've bought the Kool-Aid and you suck on the jug every day.
I'm willing to wager fifteen bucks you can not even recognize or identify The Stars and Bars, much less know a damned thing about it. But, you're in good company since Kingfish is right there with you.
8:13AM, modern history’s the weekly killings that will approach 100 in JUST THE CITY OF JACKSON, MS alone THIS YEAR that are being committed by victims of ½ century old social programs designed to have black folk “voting Democrat for the next hundred years;” although leftist LBJ didn’t put it so politely.
Race baiting is bringing up specific events that happened before many if not most people alive today were even born that’s designed to divide…including the 6.76 murders of blacks PER YEAR IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI via lynching’s; without telling the story of how many Mississippians were against such behavior, even back then.
It’s the leftist scam and conservative’s that make $$$ off of clicks have gotten have decided you get it on it.
I thank GOD I am blessed enough not to have to earn a living pitting people against one another by constantly bringing up old events that almost never ever happen anymore.
Truth will always be problematic for some people. They want to pick and choose the facts which support their opinion and suppress the other facts. This has been especially true in the South. They don't mind reminding you of
the failings of LBJ and FDR and their "social programs" which lead to today's liberal chaos, but don't dare document the sheer terror and injustice pressed upon the African American community which naturally spawned distrust of whites. If you do you are race-baiting and fomenting division. Their point of view has been hashed and rehashed a thousand times and they never get tired or upset when we hear it again, but present one kernel of the WHOLE truth from our past and suddenly they get sick and tired of bringing up old events from a past "we ought to forget". Which past?
You want to have a refreshing laugh after all this race-schmace drivel? Go find an essay in The Bitter Southerner called “Are You a Seg Academy Alum Too? Let’s Talk,” and have a barf bag handy. The author, as one commenter pointed out, sent her own two kids to a private school, a good 40-plus years after the glorious desegregation. The hypocrisy of the sanctimonious left—-oh, my stars. And bars. When these people say, “let’s talk,” they mean...let’s only talk if you agree with me. Opposing views unwelcome!
I lived my first 25 years in Birmingham in the late 60s through mid 80s, and I could not leave fast enough. There are nice people, but the racism is still there, just living under what
what some southerners call "hospitality" while they judge and hate those not like them. I still keep in touch with some distant family and friends and very little seems to have changed.
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