a candid essay on how forced integration has killed the public school system almost everywhere there were folks forced to integrate would be fun too
and yes I lived that....as part of a distinctly pro-civil rights family on my father’s side and I like several here knew many of the known players on the civil rights side
I believe Jackson Miss and Charlotte NC were both the very first with court designed gerrymandered forced busing maps which were implemented by emergency decree during an extended Christmas break in 69-70.
The result was pandemonium and it’s been downhill since.
it’s all been for naught.......shoulda stopped with enforcing the right of blacks to vote and left it at that....and I mean that emphateically.
the volumes of enforced privilege and redress that has come after that has about ruined many of them and harmed all of us as a whole.......no more freedom of association for just one.
the whole concept of civil rights has become a joke and it infects everything ....
and the news is that white folks who live in areas with small black populations will never understand.....never
i am very bitter about all this. it has turned out just like my father and grandfather feared even though both took risks to help blacks...blacks who back then were very gracious and apprecaitive and who I was proud to know....damn, it sucks just to write about how much worse the big picture is now. It’s an infection that germinated in this very issue and now like a cancer will likely destroy my culture.
I feel sorta like a South African....many of whom ironically live here now...plenty in Nashville who had to flee there homeland for doing the “right thing”.
Sometimes the “right thing” is suicidal.
But I bet you don’t understand that do you? It sounds harsh with racist undertones right?
It’s reality down here for many. Good intentions won’t make it go away.
I’d reckon 90% of freepers do not really understand this problem.
I appreciate your insights and I (47 years old) am writing about some events I have no memory of directly.
These two things (Little Rock and Ole Miss) happened because of the NAACP lawsuits and weren’t directly part of the MLK movement (which deserves a fresh history replete with “non-violence” being the “entree to violence”).
When one disobeys the law (even if its bad) one is unleashing forces that lead to more disobeying of the law.
That disobedience turns violent even if it didn’t start out that way.
The legacy of the 1960’s lives on today in the crime on our streets and the excuses for it, not to mention other racially tinged issues like “reparations” and “racial profiling,” etc.
“Diversity” is the new slogan today and it follows the
“tradition” of the “Civil Rights Movement” increasing government power and reducing individual freedom.