Posted on 07/14/2016 2:12:38 PM PDT by Hube
Sock hop with everyone invited = Racist.
Coloreds only microagression free safe zones = Just fine.
Chuck Berry: the brown-eyed handsome man. He immortalized himself. LOL. One of the all-time greats.
Ridiculous! A lot of talented black singers hit the charts during the 1950’s and achieved prosperity they would not have won in earlier times.
Cannot wait for these yutes to return home and turn in their parents for racist speech, cultural appropriations, and inherent priviledge
Bill Russell was HUGE in Boston in the 50s.
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Send in Kevin Bacon, time to cut loose and get footloose
Too many white poodles on the poodle skirts.
Threads like this demonstrate how ignorant so many posters are of historical reference
And that we have concern trolls here always at the ready to pretend to be reasonable about race to hide their real agenda which is anything but conservative
So many freepers are so stupid about black people
It’s mind numbing to see it day in and day out here
The amazing Chuck. Do you know, I actually saw him live in Alabama, doing just what he is doing in that photo, and my companion and I were in the front row. What a great entertainer!
My recollection is that he had the black kids on one day a week, and the white kids on the other four days. But the entertainers could be black or white for either group. Times were different. But at least he gave all kids a showcase, and watching the different dance moves and just plain fun with both groups was influential in breaking down barriers. Really, rock'n'roll was responsible for at least 25% of the successes of the Civil Rights era.
So incredibly true!!
The liberals called it "defacto" segregation. Kids went to schools in their own ethnic neighborhoods. Supposedly, black kids were getting crappy teachers. Then Judge Arthur Garrity ruled in the 1970's that Boston had to bus black kids to white schools. He singlehandedly ruined the school system and ethnic neighborhoods. Nevermind that black kids could attend the citywide exam schools. Those that did deserved the enrollment based on merit. True the percentage of blacks as a percent of their population was smaller than those of whites, but that was a result of circumstances within their culture.
Raisin’ a damn generation of sissies...and, privileged sissies, at that.
It’s a dance, kids! A dance. It’s not a political debate. It’s not a street demonstration. It’s a dance.
Get over yourselves. Lighten up, Nancy!
Lock the whinies in a safe space room and never let them out.
As stated, the 50’s were the start of integration...
Presley etal admit their style of Music was born from the Black Spirituals of the time.
I have ‘always’ contended that if the integration of Public schools would have started with kindergarten and worked its way up, it would have been ‘easily’ accepted after a few years.
What ‘they’ basically did was say “Integration starts this fall. Effective immediately THIS will be your NEW school”, then proceeded to bus people around to their new schools, not mattering what grade you were in.
That was a ‘mind boggling experience, especially for people who had been going to the same system with friends et al for their entire school career.
My mother moved me in 1956 - as a Senior - from a small town in NY State to a High School in Glendale CA that had more students in the graduating class than we had people in the small hamlet in NY we were living in. I quit on my 17th birthday as a Senior and went in the Navy.
Imaging uprooting ALL students like that - then sit back and wonder why such a great plan (barf) never worked.
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