[wardaddy]

I’m asking how you know this?

Were you there in real time experiencing it or did someone teach you?

How old are you and where were you raised

I’m 55 and raised in Mississippi during that time.

I am prepared to relate to you a first hand observance of those events having been there and raised in a moderate political family..

Your assumptions are partially correct but skewed

So stop accusing me of arguments I did not put forth and answer me or remain uninformed...its your choice.

Just because a body of socially liberal democrats and Republicans passed all manner of black rights and redress in the mid 60s does not mean it was all good or that their intentions were noble or their grounds ALL honest and sound

But if you are young and ignorant or simply the latter then that may be all you’ve ever been told

Consider me a helping hand with personal knowledge

I actually met or knew as a boy....Charlie Evers....Vernon Dahmer....Pat Derian.....Hodding Carter...Jr.....Aaron Henry......James Eastland.....John Stennis and Sonny Montgomery amongst others

That era in the South is not something I just read about

You can look up those names if need be

[WKB]

Back in the day all voting was done with paper ballots. I remember as a kid, seeing white poll workers telling illiterate blacks
“You don’t want to vote for this guy so we will put an X by his name and cross him off the list”.
In doing so they were actually voting for the person.

[CatherineofAragon]

As was posted earlier (and beat me to the punch!), Rachel Jeantel wouldn’t be able to answer a single question on the linked test. And the South can’t even be blamed for it...much to the chagrin of a few, I imagine.

[af_vet_rr]

How old are you and where were you raised

I’m 55 and raised in Mississippi during that time.

I'm not speaking for the others you pinged, but I'm older than you by a fair amount, and while my home was Texas, my dad being in the military meant I moved around a lot, including Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and North Carolina, in addition to Texas and I saw a fair amount of situations where the Democrats were clearly keeping Black people down and out.

Being young, I didn't quite understand it at the time, things like separate water fountains and separate bathrooms, and separate schools that were usually really bad compared to the white schools, but I do now.

The things being done to them were meant to make them feel inferior as human beings and to keep them from improving their lot in life, or as my dad put it when I asked him about a "NO NIGGERS ALLOWED" sign at a restaurant, there are truly evil folks in this world. They were not accepting of Christ into their hearts, and if they had had their way, there would still be slaves.

These days, they don't use things like "NO NIGGERS ALLOWED" signs and separate water fountains to keep them down, they use welfare and an out-of-control drug war. And it's not even necessarily a war on black folks, it's a war on poor people in general. The Democrats need a large lower-class to thrive, even though they support the very things that helped to create it in the first place. They don't want people moving up into the middle and upper classes.