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To: r9etb
More generally, one might say that the evidence points to UT having a dark past in regards to blacks.

What evidence? This stupid article on this particular incident?

You have no idea what you're talking about.

33 posted on 07/15/2010 10:57:49 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine
What evidence? This stupid article on this particular incident? You have no idea what you're talking about.

It's a matter of record. A couple of examples from the article:

"UT previously had refused to admit black students after World War II, resulting in a 1946 lawsuit by Heman Sweatt, who was represented by future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall....

UT's supporters in the Legislature, in order to provide a separate-but-equal legal defense for segregation, passed a bill creating what would become Texas Southern University in Houston."

It's no use pretending that such racial discrimination (and worse) did not take place in Texas and elsewhere. It really did. And Mr. Simkins appears to be a poster child for just how far some folks were willing to go.

34 posted on 07/15/2010 11:05:20 AM PDT by r9etb
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