Posted on 12/02/2014 3:04:13 AM PST by fivecatsandadog
Kinloch is the oldest black town in Missouri, and possibly west of the Mississippi River, formed in the 1890s when a real estate developer found a loophole in laws against selling property to black people. Life there centered on Kinloch Airfield, a history-making place where President Theodore Roosevelt flew in a plane built by the Wright brothers, where the first control tower was built, where a man first parachuted out of a plane.
People were poor, sure, but they worked hard. The problem was that other than the airport, all the businesses — and so, the tax base — were based in Ferguson. Black people from Kinloch could cross into Ferguson during the day to work as maids or factory men. But they had to be back across the border by sunset, when the gates closed.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Its all our fault they hate white people and loathe America.
Blah, blah, blah. If it’s so terrible here, leave! No one is BEGGING you to stay. No one! Begone!
It seems blacks can’t stand each other, no wonder they hate whites.
A “sundown town” outside of the south? I’m shocked. /s
Totally irrelevant.
When will someone notice that blacks choose to live with blacks in the same way as we choose to live with whites.
Color me skeptical.
Lots of communities had sundown laws in the early 20th centuries. A whole bunch more of them had informal police policies with the same effect. Ferguson may have been one of them, though I haven’t seen proof and I doubt this author bothered to research it.
But the notion of a gate between the two municipalities makes no sense. A gate is useless without a wall. Did they build a wall around Ferguson? Did they have a guard post at the gate to let white people in and turn black people back?
This article reads very much like an attempt to turn the present black hatred of whites in Ferguson into justified payback.
Ferguson is not a separate city. It’s one of many smallish municipalities in a large metro area. I doubt few in the area are entirely clear on where the boundaries are, or pay much attention when they cross them.
If all or most black people felt like the mutants who sacked Ferguson, the whole country would be a smoking ruin.
The purpose and intent of the Chief Racist and agitator in the Oval Office is to employ this event to drive a wedge between the majority of decent black Americans and the rest of us.
His other purpose is to create a not so veiled picture of what he and his henchmen will attempt to create should the GOP leadership in Congress locate their testicles and impeach this bastard next year.
I have a couple of black friends who are terrific.
I have known a lot of decent black people. The news is full of them - people like colonel Allen West, Dr. Carlson, congresswoman Love, etc. The kind of people the mass media wants to relegate to obscurity.
Don’t let the Black Racist in the Oval Office succeed in driving a wedge between Americans based on race.
Metron.
Kinloch was not founded as a black community in the 1890s. That's when a developer started selling homes to black families in the south part of Kinloch Park, an existing suburban municipality. The number of black families in the city gradually grew.
By 1938 the whites in the rest of the city deannexed themselves and reincorporated as the city of Berkeley.
So Kinloch wasn't a "black city" till about 1940.
Oops, the LA Times has revealed the narrative:
Long history of racial tension set the stage for < fill in the blank > protests
You can guarantee that this “narrative” will be repeated in the future, over and over.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.