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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No joke. It appears that the ranks of unofficial Manger Dawgs are a lot bigger than the official list.
WOOF!
He's been a tireless defender of our beloved country, hasn't he? The man's got a helluva sharp tongue, to boot!
Remind me to never get on his bad side .. LOL
As far as a sharp tongue is concerned, it's nothing compared to many of my ex-girlfriends...especially the redheads! I have a weakness for them though, so maybe I'm a glutton for punishment.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Anyway, I expect Chicken Man will be back soon, with a new screen name, and the same low-T level that made him turn cowardly a** and desert our great nation. When he does, we Dawgs will be there, ready to protect our homes, like good guard dogs do.
Good fightin' at your side, brother Dawg!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
The long FR nightmare is over. The man, the waste, the legend, AlexW, at long last got his well-deserved final ride of the lightning from our hallowed forum.
So, with a little heavy graphics kick in the buttocks, let's once again dance on the ashes with a hearty
And of course, what would a ZOT thread be without a visit from Ursula the Viking Kitten?
What did AlexW do that got the lightening called down?
Back on Post #54 - outed himself once and for all, and Freeper One bade him farewell.
Southern Philippines has a lot of Muslims and it is not like their aren’t non-whites around
A long time coming.
1 comment within that 101 that stated there was an enjoyable lack of blacks in a geophysical locale
1 comment calling for the extermination of that previous 1 commenter
158 partiers exhibiting extreme racism against a racist remarker within a racist thread
brilliant
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