“I feel sorry for the good black folks who get caught up in this.”
I feel as sorry for them as I feel for the white segregationists who automatically got riled up any time there was even a hint of a crime by a black person. That’s what race prejudice does—it turns people into unthinking automatons.
Yesterday we had white racists in the south; today we have black racists.
Different skin colors, but same human nature underneath.
Wait, I know, let’s change the hearts of man. Shouldn’t be too hard to do right? Seriously though. It really doesn’t make any difference what all the psychiatrists or psychologist say, somebody eventually wants to be “in charge” of what everyone else does or says or thinks. Koom by ya just doesn’t work that way for very long. Sooner or later a “leader”(?)[definition of your choice] emerges and wants to impose his/her will on the sheeple that are easily convinced that this person “knows” a better way. Only the Shadow really knows.
Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.
Today still have white racists in the south, and in Boston, and NYC, and Hyannisport, and throughout the country - to go along with those black racists.
I've watched white swimmers clear the water at Lake Guntersville State Park in Alabama clear the water for thirty yards in either direction when a black youth and mixed-race youth I had with me entered the water to swim. I thought I was suddenly experiencing another era. I've seen more than that and heard more than that.
None of that, however, compares with the white racism I saw living in Boston (not that I felt safe going to Roxbury).
Note I'm not commenting in which group the highest percentage of virulent racism appears to fall today, where the racism manifests itself in violence and where it's manifested in more subdued ways. Nor am I commenting on where violent racism appears to be growing. I'm simply saying that we still have white racists and, from my experience, more than we want to acknowledge.
For the record, today's the anniversary of the 1964 murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner at the hands of more than two dozen Klansmen in Mississippi. The ringleader of those murders was only brought to justice in 2005.