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Whites only: Segregation is back, from Birmingham to San Francisco
Newsweek ^ | May 2, 2017 | Alexander Nazaryan

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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To: CrimsonTidegirl

Look up Abbot district school in NJ.


21 posted on 05/07/2017 6:36:37 PM PDT by Midnitethecat
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To: re_tail20

I wonder if the writer of the article means, “The Club” of Birmingham, instead of City Club Birmingham?

Yep, it’s exclusive as all get out. But if you have money you can get in.


22 posted on 05/07/2017 6:36:37 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Before Bruce Jenner there was Mike Penner.)
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To: Windflier
The author

The old "can you hear me now?" guy?

23 posted on 05/07/2017 6:38:08 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: Windflier

Fielding Mellish.


24 posted on 05/07/2017 6:42:38 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: freedumb2003

Snowflake “intellectual” poser. I’m surprised he isn’t wearing a bow tie.


25 posted on 05/07/2017 6:43:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oatka

Don’t you know it!!!!!!


26 posted on 05/07/2017 6:44:28 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: lee martell

Exactly....One day, they are all gonna stop and say, “Hey...Wait a minute!!! This is just like the 50’s and 60’s!!!!”


27 posted on 05/07/2017 6:46:43 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JBW1949

Some things I think I cannot say. I really wonder why some of us need to be fish in a barrel. People can only put up with so much BS. I judge nobody on skin color. F-this J-off.


28 posted on 05/07/2017 6:54:05 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover

Totally agree....

I have several neighbors who are African American and they are nicer neighbors than some of the white folks around...


29 posted on 05/07/2017 6:57:23 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: shanover

BTW, I like your homepage...


30 posted on 05/07/2017 6:58:29 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JBW1949
My comment in a similar thread on Friday:

31 posted on 05/07/2017 7:03:43 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: re_tail20
By 1988, widely acknowledged to be the high point of school integration in the U.S., nearly half of all black children attended a majority-white school. An achievement gap that once appeared to be intractable suddenly seemed like something that could be closed in a generation or two.

Since then, however, the gains of Brown v. Board have been almost entirely reversed. Last year, a report by the Government Accountability Office found “a large increase in schools that are the most isolated by poverty and race.” Between 2000 and 2014, the number of schools the report deemed H/PBH—that is, “high poverty and comprised of mostly Black or Hispanic students”—more than doubled, from 7,009 to 15,089.


crap conclusions.

Back in the day, white school districts flourished.
Forced busing begins.
Integration achieved.
Black families move into the school districts.
Said school districts are now poor and minorities are majorities.

and it's whose fault ?
32 posted on 05/07/2017 7:07:11 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: re_tail20

More white privilege media bullshiite.


33 posted on 05/07/2017 7:11:32 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: TomGuy

These young blacks today haven’t clue as to how things were in the 50’s and 60’s...Neither do they have a clue as to how things were in late 80’s and 90’s...


34 posted on 05/07/2017 7:12:11 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

I was just replying to the sarcastic comment that got flagged and deleted.


35 posted on 05/07/2017 7:31:10 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Midnitethecat

Will do, thanks.


36 posted on 05/07/2017 9:52:44 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (Still deplorable.)
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To: re_tail20

More Newsweek Bullshit on a Shingle. I went to a multiracial high junior high in 1956 (integrated in 1957) and a multiracial high school in 1959 (and it is still integrated by race, gender, and ethnicity).

Newsweek likes to find one or two cases and make them into a national plague of “resegregation” or ‘the new segregation” or “race wars are coming to our schools”.

No wonder I stopped reading that leftist rag many decades ago. They are full of leftist BS and find “Richard Spencers” and “David Dukes”under their beds. Hell, Joe McCarthy found more reds than these clowns have found racists.

Welcome to THE NEW FAKE NEWS, same as the OLD FAKE NEWS, by the SAME PEOPLE.


37 posted on 05/07/2017 9:53:14 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: JBW1949

I just happened to watch a clip of Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore from 1956 on you tube. An Air Force band from a local base came on the show and I was surprised to see 3 blacks among the 20 or so members.


38 posted on 05/08/2017 1:43:10 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: re_tail20

Negroes with any sense know their species will soon be extinct.


39 posted on 05/08/2017 4:44:23 AM PDT by maddogtiger
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To: freedumb2003

How 'bout the old "Look-at-my-chubby-subbie" perv?

40 posted on 05/08/2017 4:55:54 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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