Posted on 07/06/2012 8:21:02 AM PDT by MNDude
I am curious, how were race relations before LBJ's great society? Would you have walked, relatively safe, down the streets of Harlem back in 1960?
Back then it was probably still an Italian neighborhood. Smaldones, I think.
Hey, I’m not whining when I point out facts that you don’t like. And I wonder what are the public places where you “don’t feel welcome” and don’t go. I don’t think you have any idea of what it’s like to not be able to purchase food - with your own money - when you are hungry, and to not be able to drink water when you are thirsty.
It’s an embarrassment that this ever occurred anywhere in this country.
Hey, I’m not whining when I point out facts that you don’t like. And I wonder what are the public places where you “don’t feel welcome” and don’t go. I don’t think you have any idea of what it’s like to not be able to purchase food - with your own money - when you are hungry, and to not be able to drink water when you are thirsty.
It’s an embarrassment that this ever occurred anywhere in this country.
Yet you aren’t embarrassed to have the state dictate who a private business can and cannot do business with.
So not only are you a racist of good intentions, you’re a socialist to boot.
It was a different world in the Fifties and Sixties.
It can’t be over-emphasized.
Yes, to a large extent, people stayed within their own groups; Blacks, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Asians (separated, to a large extent, by nation of origin), Hispanics.
Granted there was much less social mobility then, but, to a large extent, no one cared very much, people were more contented then, and everyone pretty much wanted to stay with their own.
I see you use the same tactics that the left uses when they have no argument - ugly name calling. You have admitted failure,just as they do when they call me a fascist for criticizing Obama and the Dems.
Still waiting for the list of places where you don’t go because you don’t feel welcome.
We’re always better off when people choose to integrate or segregate themselves.
I was out in the yard talking to my little town’s one black resident (Mixed couple and their kids) and just asked him why he chose to live here. He said “I don’t want to live in the hood, would you?”. Kinda hard to argue with that logic.
Turns out that his family were Detroit riot refugees. His father’s business had been burned out right along with the rest of them so they loaded up and left and moved down the highway to Jackson. Jackson has its own hood these days and he doesn’t want to raise his kids to be thugs. They’re good kids too.
Around 1958, my family temporarily moved out of the city and to a suburb of Chicago. Ten years later, our former neighborhood was a dangerous ghetto. The black residents were complaining that there was no swimming pool in their neighborhood for their kids to escape the heat. Also, there were rats in their apartments and they demanded that something be done about it. They claimed that the presence of the rats, and the lack of “something being done about it,” was “racism.” My mother wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper saying that her own kids had no swimming pool, and by the way, there were no rats in that neighborhood ten years prior, before the blacks moved in. The paper printed her letter, with her name, and I lived in fear for a while that angry blacks would look us up, come to our house and beat us up! Thankfully, that didn’t happen.
Yes, as I write before, race relations were not perfect in So Cal. I only took exception to the characterization of the area in your original post, which may have been true in parts of LA County, but were simply not accurate for Orange County.
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