Posted on 05/07/2017 5:14:03 PM PDT by re_tail20
On a winter afternoon that threatened tornadoes, retired federal judge U.W. Clemon stood at a window 31 floors above Birmingham, looking south. In the foreground was the University of Alabama at Birmingham, whose medical center powers the city’s economy. To the west, railroad tracks snaked between warehouses, vestiges of boom times, when Birmingham was known as “the Pittsburgh of the South.” On the horizon rose Red Mountain, a slight green ridge. Clustered on the other side of its hump, outside the Birmingham city limits, are some of the wealthiest suburbs in Alabama: Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills, Hoover and Homewood. They have the best schools in the state, and although Alabama has some of the worst schools in the nation, those suburbs frequently make it onto national best-schools lists. Many medical center faculty live in these “over the mountain” suburbs, as do older Southern families.
Clemon did not go to school over the mountain. His grandparents were sharecroppers in Noxubee County, Mississippi. His parents left for Alabama, where his mother worked as domestic for a white Birmingham family, while his father was a bricklayer’s helper. He started at the Dolomite Colored Elementary School. “We had outside privies,” he remembered over lunch at City Club Birmingham. The crowd was light. Other than the servers, he was the only black person in the room. At one point, two white men came over, and one of them greeted “the judge.” The other asked if the judge was famous, and the first one said yes, he was.
Clemon went to Miles College, right outside Birmingham, and became involved in the civil rights movement, working with Martin Luther King Jr. He jokingly recalled unfavorable coverage the movement received from Newsweek in the 1960s. When I mentioned that I hoped to do archival research at the...
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Whites only
It is to laugh, the segregationists are the non-white people in America.
Spike Lee throwing a fit because white people are moving into his parents neighborhood
College activists telling white marchers they need to go to the back of the protest march or sit down and shut up for the sins of their fathers
That’s how people of color want it: separate dorms, no cultural appropriation, blacks only classes, whites not allowed at BLM marches.
Article is full of it.
99% of the segregation in America today is self-segregation by the African Americans....
“Nazaryan” is obviously a portmanteau if NAZI and Aryan.
These BLM’ers should be careful what they ask for as in Racial Segregation, because they jolly well might get it.
Many of these complainers are the type no one would want to live or study next to anyway.
Once these groups realize their folly, that they have re-boxed, re-caged, re-othered themselves, it will be too late, it will have become woven into the fabric of law and expectation. Ha-Ha! In advance.
So this guy claims that keeping big government out of K-12 is motivated by segregation? Nonsense. And he probably knows that is nonsense.
In fact, the only reason for making such a claim in 2017 is as an excuse to force big government control onto local k-12.
Makes it easier to eliminate Whitey if he lives separately.
The blacks and whites who got dog-bit, clubbed, and shot fighting this crap in the '60s must be face-palming themselves over their stupidity.
“Once you become accustomed to preferential treatment, equality seems like discrimination”
Thomas Sowell
All the Armenians I’ve run across end in ...ian, hate Turks, and tend to be right wingers.
Wanna bet this reporter's family wasn't even resident in this country during the civil rights era?
“Although Alabama has some of the worst schools in the nation.”
No Northern liberal elite bias here. None at all. Ignorance abounds.
If this moron wants to complain about segregation, he needs to talk with BLM & other leftist groups. They are the ones screaming for segregation.
It’s Armenian.
What would happen if those idiots and Stormfont and the like held a press conference and said “we stand with our black brothers in supporting their desire to have areas in society which are black only. We support their freedom of associate and if they wish to not associate with whites that is their prerogative!”
Would heads explode? Maybe this has already happened?
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