Posted on 09/19/2005 4:51:11 PM PDT by Sam Hill
No disrespect meant to either the author or the poster of this article, which was refreshing to read. Just a statement of fact.
It wasn't just the Blacks who had to sit at the back of the buses and drink out of seperate drinking fountains; Hispanics also could not do those things or eat in a white restaurant.
And it wasn't too long ago that Blacks and Hispanics had to pay a "poll" tax in order to vote. This effectively kept the minorities from voting in presidential and other important elections.
The Columbia Encyclopedia says:
...in 1964 the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution disallowed the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in federal elections. In 1966 this prohibition was extended to all elections by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that such a tax violated the “equal protection” clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Even some churches were segregated so that minorities could not go worship in them.
They've got to be kidding! With a name like that, they actually expect credibility!
Why is the claim extraordinary and why would it require extraordinary proof? Why can't it simply be a claim and just require proof?
Huh?
Did you forget someone else? You forgot to include the whites. Was that just an oversight or was there some other reason for excluding them?
The cops in my hometown would make sure she'd be wearing that microphone where the sun don't shine.
I am Vinz Clortho. Keymaster of Gozer, Volguus Zildrohar, Lord of the Sebouillia. Are you the Gatekeeper?
I can't wait to see her on Saturday here in DC. It's gonna be a good freep!
"This is very close to home. There is a chord that Cindy hits among people that have lost people in this war and other wars, or who have draft age children like me. We're scared to death.”
Ahh...there is no draft, there will be no draft unless the Chinese start marching on Los Angeles. Even then it would be too late, because the facilities, the instructor and support cadres no longet exist in the quanity it would take to train large numbers of conscripted people.
The "draft" is a red herring thrown out by people who want to scare the people who don't have enough sense to do their own research.
Paul Zulkowitz, a.k.a. Zool
"There is no Dana, only Zool"
Where was Gozer the Gozarian?
I recall an article written by a black professor, a Catholic with a French-looking last name (so maybe a native of Louisiana), in which he remembered attending Mass in a church where blacks were restricted to the last pew.
I don't know that much about how Hispanics were treated in places where there was segregation, but many of them considered themselves and were regarded as white (at least those without obvious Indian or African ancestry).
Yes - Hispanics considered themselves as white - but in some communities, they were considered "wet-backs" even though they may have been American citizens. And "wet-backs" were not allowed to drink from a white man's fountain or eat in white man's restaurants - they had to go to the back of the restaurant to order food to go because they would not be served or allowed in the restaurant.
I also knew of a family that told me that they had to sit in the back of the church in the last pew also. This is how I know all about this.
Sorry - you're right!
LOL... she's more like the Bert Parks of the anti-war movement, i.e., she overstays her welcome until she becomes an obsolete embarassment... Though I will say that Bert was cuter.
No problem. I was either too sleepy or too dense to even notice your play on words via disrespecting (and I just heard it used a moment ago on TV! Arrrgh!). I prefer to think the former, but I suspect too much of the latter in the mix. (GGG)
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