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FirmhandKY -> RE: Matthew Norman: The insanity and enduring racism of the American right (9/21/2009 8:49:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
Rosa Parks ring a bell? Guess not.
Rosa Parks in 1954 refused to move to the back of the bus.
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May 17, 1954 would forever change the structure of race relations in the south and in the entire United States. On that day in May of 1954, Brown vs. the Board of Education was ruled on.
Now, you are stating that in 1955, Carter asked for the schools not to be built so close together. Many communities struggled, especially in the south, for many reasons. Black parents were afraid to send their children to white schools, and the opposite was true as well.
Teachers were afraid of losing their jobs, mostly black school teachers. understandably. some schools began integration quickly, some werent even starting until 1965.
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While the Brown vs. Board of education, decision brought about equality in schools it did not big about equality in parts of society. Equality in public schools did not mean equality in job opportunities. It did not mean equality in private colleges or in the availability of housing. While Brown vs. Board of education helped put an end to segregation, it did not make things fair for minorities. Inequalities would remain rampant throughout the United States, especially in the south. Even though the schools were integrated other inequalities in the South, helped to keep segregation from happening. Due to black Americans not getting the same type of job opportunities as white Americans, they did not make as much money.<a name="#4"><sup><a href="#4n"><strong>4</strong></a></sup> Due to the fact that they did not make as much money, they could not afford the same type of houses as many white Americans could. Therefore, the majority of black Americans live in the same neighborhood and communities. Therefore the children in those predominately black neighborhoods get zoned and go to the same public schools. The schools they go to are traditionally undefended. So they do not get the same quality of education even post Brown vs. the Board of Education. So even though the black American is basically desegregated there are still societal systems in place that keep the black American down. Even to day, there is a sizeable economic gap between white Americans and black Americans. Most of the wealthy people in America are white but there is even a gap in the number of middle class white Americans and the number of middle class black Americans. These social inequalities exist throughout the entire United States of America, but it is the worst in the South. The South always seems to be twenty years behind the rest of the country in terms of race relations and racial equality. Many schools in the South did not integrate when the Brown vs. Board of education decision was passed down. Many schools did not ingrate for many years afterwards. In some towns, only the high schools were integrated and they would leave the elementary school separate. In other towns , only one school would be segregated, leaving the other schools all white. Many southern colleges protested integration at there schools. The transition to integration was not an easy one in the South.
http://mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu/students/3090/3090Watson03FA.htm
an interesting article. it gives reasons why both whites and blacks at the time resisted the idea of their children mingling. it wasnt as one sided as some may wish to believe.
Editing the substance of your remarks, after posting it, without a disclaimer borders on the unethical. I'm sure you didn't mean to do so, so just consider this a reminder of how others might see this.
As to the subject of your now extended post ...
So? All true, granted.
My point in giving the information about Carter was to point out that:
1) for every republican one wishes to point out with a history tainted with racism, the "other side" could likely find one as a counter-example.
2. Carter, in particular, as the agent of change who directly caused this threads existence, with his own unfounded accusations "racism" was a particularly meaty target. I had more, but was just trying to make the point, not necessarily to convince anyone that Carter is a racist. He's definitely an anti-Semite, though, but that gist for another thread,
3. Republicans don't have a lock on people who behave badly at some point in their lives, or who are (or can be seen as) racist, or anything else, so that claims that "republicans are racist by nature" is a false logical construction, however one attempts to make the argument. Conversely (in direct response to Spinner), not all Republicans are angels, either.
A final point that I've made repeatedly is that racism should be treated as an individual injustice, and that attempts to minimize any racist behavior to one group is - at least a tacit and in my view an overt - claim that some form of racism is justified.
Once one makes the argument that some racism is justified, then they have no standing to cry about any form of racism.
Firm
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