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Parks and the NAACP played the white racistsDo you have a link to this? In the case of PARKS---she was expected to get up for an elederly person as were younger white people. It was just good manners, that she didn't have.
Ahhhh...just found out why..... Rosa wasn't some random spark. She was a member of the NAACP----and they had been planning a bus boycott for MONTHS for this city. Another african american woman well 15 year old-- had much the same incident 9 months earlier and the boycott was planned then but it was found out that the 15 year old was preggie and therefore not sympathetic enough for the black activists/NCAAP to use as their face for the buses who hoped to have blacks put in as bus drivers as their original extortion payment. Gee, sounds like Parks wanted to start an incident as per the activists plans for months and refused to get up for the elderly man to create an incident.
Interesting you should say that
A black getting on a bus had to pay the driver at the front of the bus and then get off and re-enter the bus from the side door so they wouldn’t walk through the white section.
If the white section was full, blacks were expected to give up their seats for white passengers
You GoofyOne point that you are missing is that Alabama was a very liberal state back in the day. Bull Conner was a card carrying Leftard. The state voted for Liberal Extremist FDR 4 times in a row.
It had nothing to do with "Trump" or the "Republicans"
You Goofy
Not at all, I know history.
It was leftist President Roosevelt who decided to deploy a Jim Crow, homo and transphobic army to fight WW2..
He could have ordered the desegregation of the army and navy so that the invasion of Normandy looked like America.
But the sad fact is that he didn't.
FDR “could have” used WWII to force segregation
But he realized our armed forces were in bad enough shape that forced segregation would impact recruitment.
What FDR did was promise black leaders that if they were patient and supported the war effort, segregation would be addressed after the war.
Instead, when black soldiers returned they were immediately “put in their place”
It was Truman who integrated the armed forces
...and a rapist too. Lets never forget that.MLK was a bible-thumping blow-hard who liked to beat up White women.
www.google.com
Lots of countries do those things over covid.The indignities of Jim Crow went beyond riding in the back of the bus
Negroes were not allowed to use the same restrooms as whites. The Colored facilities were often an outhouse
Negroes could not use the same water fountains
They were not allowed to try on clothes or shoes before they bought them. Whites refused to buy clothes a colored person may have worn
They were not allowed to use the public Libraries. Whites did not want to read a book that may have been read by a black person
Restaurants, hotels, swimming pools, hospitals were all off limits to “Negroes”
No nation that allows this kind of treatment of its citizens can be considered great.
Martin Luther King saved us from ourselves
The indignities of Jim Crow went beyond riding in the back of the bus
Negroes were not allowed to use the same restrooms as whites. The Colored facilities were often an outhouse
Negroes could not use the same water fountains
They were not allowed to try on clothes or shoes before they bought them. Whites refused to buy clothes a colored person may have worn
They were not allowed to use the public Libraries. Whites did not want to read a book that may have been read by a black person
Restaurants, hotels, swimming pools, hospitals were all off limits to “Negroes”
No nation that allows this kind of treatment of its citizens can be considered great.
Martin Luther King saved us from ourselves
Nothing odd about it. BOth parties had embraced equal rights for blacks by then. There was a national consensus on the issue.
On that issue.
The lefty love affair with socialism, that was/is still a problem.
One point that you are missing is that Alabama was a very liberal state back in the day. Bull Conner was a card carrying Leftard. The state voted for Liberal Extremist FDR 4 times in a row.
It had nothing to do with "Trump" or the "Republicans"
35% of Blacks are still having affairs and leaving their families and raiding electronics stores holiday time.So where are we after over 50 years?
Blacks have much more access in our society
Outright racism is spurned
Interracial relationships are openly accepted
We had a black President and Vice President
Black Lives Matter
Courts are ignoring voting rights
There is still a disparity in employment
www.cnn.com
Now the conservative USSC has walked back many of those laws and policies. Very Sad....We needed massive government to end official racism
Strong laws banning segregation and requiring affirmative action to provide opportunities.
A deadly disease vs the color of a person's skin....no comparison.Lots of countries do those things over covid.
A black person drinking from a public water fountain does not kill people.A deadly disease vs the color of a person's skin....no comparison.
Heard one of the top black supporters in Chicago, Father Pflegel saying this morning while honoring MLK that nothing has changed since he was killed! I actually agree with him, it means demofks haven’t done one fking thing for blacks. It’s time to wake up from the dream
What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. think of America today?
Were Martin Luther King alive in 2022 to celebrate his 93rd birthday, what would he have to say about his nation’s contentious racial landscape?nypost.com
Troy Williams: What would MLK think of today’s America?
By the time of his death, the Civil Rights leader was focused on improving the lives of poor Americans.www.fayobserver.com
of note is, MLK's final days took a turn from racism , towards classism....
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I grew up in the 60's and saw most of the Civil Rights movement. Like most Americans, I was outraged at the assasination of Dr King. When we talked about giving him a national holiday ten years later, I looked at it as a form of appeasement for outraged blacks.....a way of giving them their own holiday to quiet them down.
In reading about the Civil Rights movement in subsequent years, I realized what a great American Dr King was. Black Americans came back after WWII to find that despite fighting and dying in defense of their country, they were still treated like lesser Americans. They found they were not allowed to mingle with whites, were not welcome in much of the country they had fought for. Blacks were considered to be dirty, diseased and sub human. Some whites were outraged at the thought of eating with blacks, using the same restrooms, riding on public transportation with them.
As black Americans began to protest their treatment in their own country they were met with harsh resistance from both white militants and governments who swore to support inequal treatment. Blacks were denied the right to vote, to freely associate, rights to a fair trial. Those who resisted were met with terrorist attacks. Lynchings, bombings, arrest and assasination of their leaders.
Most of us faced with such horrific treatment in our own homeland would fight violence with violence. How would you react if someone spat on your child for trying to go to school?
When the courts did not protect blacks, armed conflict would seem a reasonable response. Dr King knew violence would only result in more violence against you. He modeled the Civil Rights movement around Gandhis peaceful resistance theories. By using cameras to document the treatment of peaceful protestors he saved this country from an armed violent protest that would have destroyed this country.
America returned from WWII as an economic and military superpower. But a country that does not treat its citizens with respect is not a moral superpower. By changing the way we treat our citizens, Dr King, more importantly, saved our soul. By forcing us to look in a mirror and see who we really are, he enabled us to become a truly great country.
On this Martin Luther King day I hope everyone can reflect on what a great American he was and how much better off we all are
Funny how people like you feel the need to think brainwashing ideas are accepted here! Nice try, facts are when Lincoln was killed demofks made out! Guess why?Totally untrue.
The South voted Democrat because they refused to vote for "the party of Lincoln", but were NOT at all "liberal" in ANY way.
The South had the mythical tradition left over from aristocracy, of the superiority of the wealthy elite.
A real "liberal" is one who believes in inherent individual liberties as being the only source of any legal authority.
So a true liberal can not possibly be racist. ever.
Was FDR "liberal"?
Hard to say.
There are so many conflicting stories.
