I don't want to get banned.
Posted on 09/30/2003 12:19:22 PM PDT by sheltonmac
Good for you. I'd rather be an American, thanks.
I don't want to get banned.
I am actually thankful for the way things have turned out, on the whole, at least the 30,000 fott level.
But you make a salient point with regard to "next time"....this is similar to what is happening in California. And more power to them!
just THOUSANDS of Paleo-CSA patriots from the old rebel families.
we will NEVER forget our 4 years of freedom.
free dixie,sw
the damnyankees APOLOGIZE for MURDERING 92 members of my family just because they had RED skins,
when the damnyankees APOLOGIZE for TORTURING & MURDERING at least 15,000 POWs at PLPOWC (the damnyankee's DEATH CAMP in MD.),
and when we have our LIBERTY!
NOT until then.
free dixie,sw
Sorry to learn you don't know your history.
Consider that some where active abolutionists who felt a duty to fight for the political entity they supported (at that time a state).
Can't prove it. They were all draftees from day one. If they had not fought, they would have been hung. This doubtless played a major role in Johnson's decision to pardon Confederate en masse, but Johnson was a rabid racist, and to not pardon the Confederates would very likely have thrown the southern bloodbath that killed upwards of a million Americans of African heritage into a full scale guerilla war that the North knew it could not win. Therefore it didn't fight that one, but instead pointed out ot the southern states that if they didn't cease the slaugher, they would lose control of the Congress. That stopped the bulk of it, and equality was then denied Americans of African heritage for another hundred years.
By contrast, the Northern states developed their own segregated patterns resulting in de facto segregated schools, particularly in cities and surrounding suburbs. Public schools were left to their own means of complying with the law. They lacked a well-planned, coordinated approach that included housing policies devised by public and private coalitions along with political leadership. Vast numbers of people--adults and children--were emotionally affected by desegregation. It made a profound impression upon individual lives and families, on all of us.Here
BY the 1970s, according to studies by Gary Orfield, the South had become the nation's most integrated region. In 1976, 45.1 percent of the South's African American students were attending majority white schools, compared with just 27.5 percent in the Northeast and 29.7 percent in the Midwest. These gains occurred in the context of the second great controversy of the school desegregation effort -- busing.Civilrights.orgIN 1977, THE COURT took up another issue arising out of the Detroit litigation and sought to ease the impact of denying interdistrict desegregation. In Milliken II the Court ordered the state of Michigan, along with the Detroit school system, to finance a plan to address the educational deficits faced by African American children. These deficits, the Court suggested, arose out of enforced segregation and could not be cured by physical desegregation alone.
Since the 1970s Boston schools have become even more segregated by race and class. In evaluating the ultimate failure of desegregation in Boston, Formisano explicitly identifies where public policy went wrong and why. In doing so, he provides an insightful account of one of the most significant grass-roots movements of the 1970s and offers a valuable contribution to understanding the ongoing social problem that school desegregation tried to address.Boston against busing
The politics of public school segregation in the North also captured national attention as courts began to identify and take judicial steps to remedy racially segregated northern schools. For example, the federal district court in Detroit suggested a conspiracy among government officials (federal, state and local) and private organizations to reinforce segregation throughout the Detroit schools (Milliken v. Bradley, 338 F. Supp. 582 {1971}). In Denver, the district court found that school officials had engaged in racial segregation of one section of the district through deliberate manipulation of the "neighborhood school" (Keyes v. School District Number I, 303 F. Supp. 279 {D. Colo. 1969}).Student civil rights in the 1970s
free dixie,sw
Yes, I have politically impure thoughts.
Is there hope for me?
Sorry to learn you don't know your history.
Consider that some where active abolutionists who felt a duty to fight for the political entity they supported (at that time a state).
Can't prove it. They were all draftees from day one. If they had not fought, they would have been hung. This doubtless played a major role in Johnson's decision to pardon Confederate en masse, but Johnson was a rabid racist, and to not pardon the Confederates would very likely have thrown the southern bloodbath that killed upwards of a million Americans of African heritage into a full scale guerilla war that the North knew it could not win. Therefore it didn't fight that one, but instead pointed out ot the southern states that if they didn't cease the slaugher, they would lose control of the Congress. That stopped the bulk of it, and equality was then denied Americans of African heritage for another hundred years.
Given that the south no longer lynches on a consistant basis, in fact, almost all southerners are actually reconstructed.
The stereotype that many place on southerners who are proud of their roots, be they good or bad, is too easily excused or ignored. Such criticism is never leveled, for instance, at cherokees, whose ancestors fought with the south, whos owned slaves, and who were guilty of gross injustices within their own culture (something not unique to anyone).
Bashing Southern heritage is the only PC-safe pastime that is encouraged in public anymore, and it is just as wrong as any other baseless insult.
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