Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
Black people tend not to want go places that cost money. When I was a kid in the 60's and early 70's, my grandmother would pay a dollar for us to fish off of a pier on the Trinity River when there was free fishing on the banks. Everyone on the pier was white, everyone on the banks was black. That was a well spent dollar for my Alabama Grandma.
Ok, that was fifty years ago.
Just last evening, I was at a fundraiser for the high school in my district. It was a Halloween carnival, two dollars per person admission. The kids could trick or treat at about forty booths for a much more fun and safe experience than roaming around the neighborhood at night. They came away with way more candy. There were also tickets to pay games and win prizes at the booths, and a concession stand.
Student counsel raised thousands of dollars to be used for a Graduation night lock-in to encourage graduates to not go out and get in trouble or get hurt on their first night as official grownups.
The district has always been about half Hispanic and half white, but in recent years, the boundaries were moved to incorporate several all-black apartments. Now the district is maybe five percent black. Three different times a black family - no dad - came in and when asked for the price of admission expressed surprise and left, pulling their disappointed kids with their empty bags out the door. All the flyers and all the announcements specified "Fund Raiser." Maybe they thought the money raised was for them.
I don't fault anyone for being frugal. With so many blacks living off the sweat of my own brow, I suppose I should applaud it. But not paying two dollars for kids to participate safely in the community while planning to spend hundreds of dollars and several hours on a weave makes no sense to me.
They make it easy for whites to exclude them. Just a nominal fee will often get the job done. If there was a way to exclude non-tippers, restaurants could go back to being effectively white-only.
Ok, that was fifty years ago.
Just last evening, I was at a fundraiser for the high school in my district. It was a Halloween carnival, two dollars per person admission. The kids could trick or treat at about forty booths for a much more fun and safe experience than roaming around the neighborhood at night. They came away with way more candy. There were also tickets to pay games and win prizes at the booths, and a concession stand.
Student counsel raised thousands of dollars to be used for a Graduation night lock-in to encourage graduates to not go out and get in trouble or get hurt on their first night as official grownups.
The district has always been about half Hispanic and half white, but in recent years, the boundaries were moved to incorporate several all-black apartments. Now the district is maybe five percent black. Three different times a black family - no dad - came in and when asked for the price of admission expressed surprise and left, pulling their disappointed kids with their empty bags out the door. All the flyers and all the announcements specified "Fund Raiser." Maybe they thought the money raised was for them.
I don't fault anyone for being frugal. With so many blacks living off the sweat of my own brow, I suppose I should applaud it. But not paying two dollars for kids to participate safely in the community while planning to spend hundreds of dollars and several hours on a weave makes no sense to me.
They make it easy for whites to exclude them. Just a nominal fee will often get the job done. If there was a way to exclude non-tippers, restaurants could go back to being effectively white-only.
