https://freerepublic.com/tag/shamelessracemonger/ en-us Thu, 22 May 2014 13:39:45 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3158932/posts Clyde Ross was born in 1923, the seventh of 13 children, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, the home of the blues. Ross’s parents owned and farmed a 40-acre tract of land, flush with cows, hogs, and mules. Ross’s mother would drive to Clarksdale to do her shopping in a horse and buggy, in which she invested all the pride one might place in a Cadillac. The family owned another horse, with a red coat, which they gave to Clyde. The Ross family wanted for little, save that which all black families in the Deep South then desperately desired—the protection of the law.... The Atlantic https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3158932/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2014 13:39:45 GMT