Posted on 12/01/2015 2:51:51 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
I appreciate it
Trying to explain black rule where I come from to a Colorado freeper is Quixotic
I’ve been doing it for 15 years here
Folks believe what they are capable of believing to fit their minds
To me conservatism has to be tempered with empiricism
A notion totally lost on the left and most non lefties too now
My recent ancestry did not segregate out of hate rather fear
Based on the preceding notion of empiricism of observing given we had a lot to observe
Like South Africans
Another misunderstood race of whites
And like Afrikaaners we are more comfortable with blacks as well even though we are aware of the pitfalls
Look around today
Were my ancestry wrong to be fearful?
It’s all a fait accompli now and it’s a tenuous survival in any big urban southern city now
The tax base will be the target of the non contributors in a hurry push comes to shove
Only bright side is we’re better armed
I spent last weekend in gorgeous Buckhead but I kept think a bunch of whites and others surrounded by the angry empowered and outnumbered 5-1
Btw
Colorado ain’t what it used to be
The Front Range is a lost cause
Yes. The NAACP acted very wisely in this. That once they lost their cause due to American law and the overwhelming support of the great American people they turned to the dark side has no place in this amazing moment in history.
“In other words, go to hell.”
ROTFLOL!
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
LOL
Glad to know you know how to interpret. I was worried about that.
I lived in the South for awhile. I found it to be a land of extremes. It's filled with some of the most honest, decent, hard-working, examples of Christian goodness on the planet, AND some of the slimiest, no-good, calculating, vicious eruptions out of Satan's @ss.
BOTH. Living in the same place, at the same time. It was very weird, and very hard to deal with, not having a score card.
And then there's the weather... Holy Moly...
In “Eyes on the Prize”, Julian Bond indicates it was staged. Parks was an activist, an officeholder in the Civil Rights Movement and prior to her refusal to give up the seathad been involved in vetting the previous candidate, who was rejected because she was pregnant out of wedlock.
Additionally the civil rights organizations were prepped and ready to roll with the boycott campaign. They were just looking for the pretext, Parks knew it was needed and did her part in engineering it.
The question though is “so what?”. The segregation laws were evil and needed to go. The use of civil disobedience to make that happen was an example of phenominal planning and execution in support of a defined and just goal. Not to mention that like many of those who engage in civil disobedience Parks knew the personal consequences, accepted them and was held accountable for them.
So the fact that it was staged does nothing to detract from the general effort or Park’s role in it. It deserves to be understood as what it was and studied.
Sounds like the northeast where I am - filled with good people and evil people and terrible weather. If you want mild weather, don’t live in America. Try England.
Very true, there’s good and bad everywhere. The contrast just seemed sharper in the South. Or maybe I’m just a sucker for a Southern accent.
America is a land of extremes. I’m rereading the amazing Laura Wilder “Little Prairie” books. It takes a truly committed individual to survive in this country. Perhaps that is why we are currently cracking up! We are all really Scandinavians!
No, not over the last 50 years. Just in the last eight.
Capitalism is not so disgusting. She was a hardcore Communist agitator, who used the weapon of racial guilt to set a precedent that led us to where we are today. this was just one of their fronts of attack, another was sexual inequality, another Christianity, and financial inequality, an orchestrated attack on capitalism by preying on guilt and fomenting riot among the "oppressed". Hope you are happy.
I was in school when the schools in were desegregated and experienced firsthand the ensuing mayhem. It wasn't the whites in my area who started that, and I recall a lifelong friend who refused to go into the same classroom with me because I was white. Thankfully, there were two classrooms for that grade that year, and he went into the other.
Like any protest, failure to consider beforehand how the impact of the protest could be maximized, even into an iconic moment, would be wasteful at best.
What is the point of protest if it never makes the news or can be downplayed?
"Thousands" of TEA party protesters found this out when the media divided their numbers by 100 or more in reporting.
Blacks had been in the trenches on this for a long time when Rosa got on the bus.
+1
It was staged. Period. And, I never said racism was non existent.
Cedric rules!
All too true. The godfather of all powerful ‘consolidated’ government, as the Founders called it, as they tried to insure against it. Too bad they failed.
That’s quite a visual.
Yep. Then we wonder why each generation is getting more uninformed/misinformed.
Now Cesar Chavez and Che Guevara are heroes, being taught as such in our schools. Just like MLK and Rosa Parks and everyone else that goes against everything America is about...
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