That's me. Happy happy happy!
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....
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Looks like our little buddy has finally worn-out his welcome.
Heh....that's right Pops, and don't you forget it! LOL
(now where'd I put my Grecian Formula?)
For your viewing pleasure, racist comments attract lightning...
And he never posted the proof...ah well, small victories are sometimes the sweetest.
I don’t need no Grecian Formula.
My barber gets rid of my grey hair.
He cuts it off and throws it away.
That's me. Happy happy happy!
He posted all the proof he had.
Hey, at least you've got something left to cut!
(me too, but it ain't what it used to was)
LOL, I figured he had nothing...he was probably one of the most evasive critters I’ve ever seen...
Seriesly???
If that's true, we'll have to whoop it up some around here!
“Yeah, since the summer of ‘53 :-)”
If I read what you are posting right, you were born about the time I graduated from High School. That was in Des Moines, Iowa. Nearly a year ago I was back in Des Moines for my 60th HS reunion. I had many friends who were well tanned then, and I do now. I like what I have seen of your posts. Blessings to you, my FRiend.
And vice versa for me. I've had pale-faced friends for as long as I can remember. Personally, I've never put much stock in a person's paint job. It's what's underneath the hood that counts.
I enjoy your posts, as well. I have a habit of noting the names of those who post thought provoking things. I've noted yours on many occasions.
Best to ya!
So happy to see your smiling face!
Fine looking man Wind.
I missed 10+ days here and this thread where the worm got the boot, finally!! Where’s the party?!
Geez.....what’s the drunken old turncoat gonna do with his time, now that he can’t come on FR and bash America day in and day out?
I think it was all he lived for.
I'll pm TheOldLady to get 'er started.
Now who is that handsome fella!
(Nice hat, BTW.)
Get it started!!! Woo-Hoo! No more reading the horrible ripping posts he gave us/America.......only the greatest Country our wonderful God ever put on this earth? No more asking FReepers to have an ‘escape plan’ and flee with a run out powder from the Nation that has given us everything? This old boy is not a drinkin’ man but I think I am gonna have to open a jug I have stashed right darn now! Oh boy it might be a ‘bad head’ hanger up hear in the beautiful tree, stream and lake filled mountains of the American Redoubt tomorrow morning!!!!
Don’t forget me! I need a party, we are long overdue.
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