Posted on 01/11/2015 11:18:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ATLANTA — THE groundswell of protests over police brutality in the closing days of 2014, when people dropped to the marble floor of Grand Central Terminal and shut down the Brooklyn Bridge, blocked Lake Shore Drive in Chicago and chanted “I Can’t Breathe” from Boston to Oakland, summoned ghosts not only of the marches of the civil rights era but of the larger forces that led to the arrival of so many African-Americans in the big cities of the North and West in the first place.
Dozens of cities would ultimately join in these demonstrations of discontent. But a map of the largest protests those first nights, and of the high-profile cases of police violence in recent months, lit up like a map of the Great Migration: New York, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Washington, Los Angeles, Oakland, all of them the major receiving stations of the movement. These were the places to which generations of African-Americans fled to escape the state-sanctioned violence their descendants have now faced in the North and West.
In matters of racial injustice, the South has been the center of attention since before the time of the Civil War. But the North, with its shorter history of a mass black population, has only more recently dealt with the paradox of an enlightened ideal coexisting with racial disparity. The protests have become a referendum on the black condition since the Great Migration. “The protests are beginning to wake people up to the idea that the problems are not only there but have been obvious all along,” the historian Taylor Branch told me. “It feels like the South in the 1950s.”(continued)
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Racism is believing that blacks are inferior and cannot fend for themselves and need plantation bosses.
Sounds a lot like the platform of the Democrat party to me.
I don't know about the US, but the majority of Irish slaves ended up in the Carribean as far as I have been able to determine In fact during Cromwell's rampage the majority of slaves sent to the New World were Irish..
FUNYT
Ooops! I meant to post my comment to #1 referencing the NYT. Absolutely no offense intended.
....except to the NYT
this is what needs to be drummed from every level 24/7 for 10 years.
Don’t know about the Caribbean. I’m simply saying it didn’t happen in colonies or US.
Racism?
How about deporting Irish convicts and working them to death? They weren’t indentured servants.
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