Posted on 01/07/2015 4:10:37 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
In the Mississippi Delta town of Tchula, there’s a fading columned mansion that once belonged to Sara Virginia Jones, the daughter of a local plantation dynasty. Its walls were lined with nearly 400 works by artists as prominent as Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Salvador Dali, and Andy Warhol.
Then, in the 1990s, the house changed hands. Today, it is filled with framed photos of the current owner—Tchula’s controversial first black mayor, Eddie Carthan, who was in office from 1977 to 1981—posing with U.S. presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama and the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan.
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Among the key towns of the civil-rights era, those with the largest black majorities are frequently in the most economic trouble. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
I’ll read on, but I think its hilarious how in the title the writer avoids the parties truly responsible for ‘ravaging’ the delta and instead blames it on people fleeing the ravaging.
I like how they get all mad when whitey comes back and call it 'gentrification'.
I used to teach in this area of the country. I refer to those years as my “missionary” journey.
You mean everything they touch turns to sh!t? wow.
Pre-”ravaging”, the place had real problems.
Does Alan Kaufman live there?
Well guess what ? Living in that house doesn't make you a first-class citizen. Getting an education, working hard, developing some values, creating jobs, creating a decent community for yourself and others and STOPPING THE GRIEVANCE COLLECTING are necessary to become a first-class citizen in a thriving town.
And sincerely, good luck with that.
A posting from yesterday with some 75 comments if anyone
is interested reviewing them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3243954/posts
How White Flight Destroyed the Mississippi Delta (Blame Whitey)
Keepin’ the scheme alive!
Its that damn Whitey’s fault again.
Excellent posts here on an earlier thread especially #68.
And please this is not a complaint for or against duplicate threads.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3243954/posts
if groups demtards hate, stay there, everything is their falt.
if groups demtards hate, leave, it’s their fault.
if groups demtards hate, come back and fix an area others have ruind/let decay, it’s their fault.
why any non-demtard should care one whit what these losers say, is beyond me.
now we gotta just find where he does brunch...
The “Delta” area be it Arkansas, Louisiana, or Mississippi historically has/had a majority black population. The article was about how the small wealthy white populus of that area moved away decades ago and left the remaining impoverished black people behind.
The mechinization of agriculture eliminated the need for white sharecroppers as well as black ones.
Sorry for covering your post but I am one of the best “at posting before reading”.
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we will see a continuation of hostility by blacks toward whites. This often amounts to outright hatred, as seen in the intermittent riots that never cease, and in the frequent, though carefully under-reported, racial attacks on whites. If blacks cannot rise, and it seems they cannot, they will remain angry in perpetuity.
Fred On everything
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A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.
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John Derbyshire
Blacks are for responsible government in the same way that Islam is a religion of peace.
Where to start. I grew up in the Delta on the west side of the Mississippi River.
Factories won’t come to those towns because they can’t find anyone who wants to work. The former mayor said as much.
The private academies have been proven to be the right idea. Those attending public schools graduate not be able to read and write or even speak proper English. And each generation is worse off than the one before it.
The whites left without making amends? All the whites I know that left didn’t have anything to do with the klan. In fact, I never knew anyone in the klan. They were hard working people who left for greener pastures. By the 1970s there were no green pastures left in the Delta.
Was racism rampant? Absolutely. But you’d think since 1964 those town would have improved. The article even states that towns run by blacks are economically depressed. Why is that? Because they went to public schools?
In my former hometown, where I still have family, the “rich” part of town is now in shambles. Only a few houses have been kept up. And the “poor” part of town is still a slum. I don’t like going back there to visit.
Finally, the picture of the black family sitting on the porch of the shack could have been my family. I grew up chopping and picking cotton. Our school year didn’t start in December but it did let out for two weeks during harvest season. And there were no blacks anywhere around. It was poor whites doing the farm labor.
And by the way, there are Mexicans working in place of the blacks in the South. The farmers will tell you they’re hard workers while the blacks don’t want to work. I’m sure some of them, if not all of them, are illegal but that’s another discussion.
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