Posted on 08/17/2014 3:19:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The events in Missouri spring from America's deeply embedded segregation and black economic deprivation.
I spent my very early years in New York, living a very multiracial Sesame Street life, a big swinging bellbottom of a childhood. And then our family moved to Baltimore and the iron curtain of the "colour line" fell. I felt that I had moved from the 1970s through a time warp where black and white were the only two colours and never the twain shall socially meet.
I grew to understand what the 50s were actually like in Baltimore, when my mother, for example, was permitted to buy clothes from the major department store but not try them on. (Heaven forfend some black lady should be in the dressing room, right? You know they leave a residue of blackness on the clothes.)
America has never had one racial reality, but a series of them strung together from San Antonio to Pittsburgh to Appalachia. What we are seeing in Ferguson, Missouri, is the result of life in a specific type of heavily racialised zone. Yes, a city such as New York, where a black man was recently choked to death by police officers, has its own very clear forms of racialisation and it's a national issue. But the police killing, last week, of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen in Ferguson has sparked national protests because it represents a specific type of racialisation. This is of the majority black city, big or small, with a white economic and political power structure.
I grew up with mayor William Donald Schaefer, who presided over Baltimore from 1971-1987, an unusually long stretch....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
(sheesh....blushing...)
Thanks :-)
That has been true since the beginning of time, and always will be.
Great quote.
The air is suddenly a lot fresher in here, don't you think? You bet it's time to break out the party supplies!
(no Alex, you've NOT invited!)
Fresher? You bet! Why this America bashing jerk was allowed to continue his blasts against America is beyond me. Party?.....This old boy can go for that! Why he was allowed to continue his rips on America is beyond me.....but he is gone! Long live The United States of America! The greatest place on earth!!!
Goodness, I simply cannot wait to meet you and your beautiful family in October, my friend.
An Alex writes yet ANOTHER chapter in “How To Win Friends and Influence People”...
Like the Stetson, Windy... you got a D-ring Winchester and Palomino to go with it???
Damn... I missed the Zotting....
Dawg Pound... ya’ll did a Public Service... proud to be a part of the Pound.
WOOF!
Boots, my buddy!!!
Welcome to the Dawg Pound!!!
“...drunken old turncoat ....”
He gives drunken old turncoats a bad name!!!
He’ll be back under another name...
And the Dawgs will be waiting.
WOOF!!
“...Where’s the party?!...”
I’m dancing over here, but you can’t see it. Picture the “Feet of Fire Dance” from Riverdance... and then imagine something else, cause I can’t dance...
Hahah!!
I will have to research the first time I responded to Alex... that was the first time he called us “Manger Dogs”. It’s a gen-U-wine Historical Artyfact now...
Damn, that would be over a year ago now, I think... we’ve been responding to his crap for THAT long..?
Alex was a disgrace to the FReeper class of '98. Good to see that no one is immune to the ban on racism.
One would have thought he might have learned something over all those years. Red wine does have health benefits. Consuming a bottle a day, however has other consequences.
Good to put a face to a screen name, FRiend. I'd post a pic of myself, but it would make kids cry, make everyone's cats run in terror, and probably fry the network.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
“...a disgrace to the FReeper class of ‘98...”
Hard to believe he was around that long. He seemed to home in on the surrender monkey threads; like he delighted in defeatism and pessimism.
I get the feeling he’ll be back under another name, if he isn’t already.
RE Red Wine:
A glass a day is good for the heart, as I understand it.
Now, My grandmother took a shot of whiskey a day, said it did the same thing. She made it to 87, so something was working there...
I served with upstanding and outstanding soldiers of all races, but there's one color I truly despise...the coward's yellow running down the backs of Alex and his ilk. When the SHTF worldwide, those friendly natives he's so fond of being able to buy will show their racist side, too...against his lying, cowardly a**.
Dawg Soldiers up!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
wku brother...
JR gave him “der Heave-Ho”... well-deserved, I might add.
Best news of the day, so far.
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