What ever happened to the whole “content of their character” idea?
Folks of all races can either be productive citizens or human trash.
Years ago, my grandfather employed about 50 black cowboys who were upstanding men. They were hard workers and didn’t have any kind of attitude. They didn’t use the n word because it was disrectfull. These were very religious men who were good family men and raised their kids right. I worked right along with them as a kid and learned a lot from them. We didn’t see differences in race, we were all in the same boat.
Don’t see many of those folks anymore.
As a kid I remember black business’s, Black Hotels, and black places of entertainment, black bars and black entrepaneurs.
These places closed up almost the day we integrated white business’s. Blacks invaded places like Glen Echo and Marshall hall they made them untenable for whites, and these places eventually went under.
The black business’s folded and they went under.
Race relations have gone downhill ever since the big desegregation push.
I won’t try to explain why, but the facts are there.
I was always embarassed when my Norwegian grandmother would use the word nigger. But at 98 years old and me just a kid I wasn’t about to correct her when she would say things like “That nice nigger girl from across the street came over with some muffins, and I made some coffee and we had such a nice time.” (And of course the “girl” was 40 something!)
It was really odd to hear her use such a nasty word in discribing such a nice exchange. (The neighbor gal turned into a good friend over the years.)