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October 27, 2014

Eruptions of racial desperation have occurred all across Dixie:

in Detroit, Ferguson, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Washington DC, Watts, St. Louis, Cincinnati.
Yes. Though I am a son of the Southland, I will not lie. The truth is the truth. I bow my head in shame. And I am further forced to own that, while the black population of the North prospers, and mingles easily with its white brethren in casual but sincere amity, in the South the Negro huddles in the slums, denied schooling, and living on the meager charity of whites. Should you doubt this, look to Newark, Trenton, Camden, Detroit, Chicago, Flint, Gary. The flowering of blacks in the North a century and a half after the end of the Civil War, the rise in scholarly achievement, the frequent and accepted intermarriage of the races—here we have irrefutable proof of the superior moral culture of the North.
Fred Reed: A Southerner Repents

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 27, 2014 5:21 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Yep. We can see it with our own eyes. Once People of Color get off the plantation and go about pulling their own weight we can see how worthy they are.

They easily adapt to northern urban living; they allow their pride to shine through in spite of opinion against them.

They excel in government and clerical positions.

You could say that Detroit is their showplace.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 27, 2014 4:25 PM

Sarchasm at its finest.

Posted by: Mother Effingby [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 27, 2014 10:26 PM

It's a dicey topic to comment on without making blunt and judgmental and pejorative remarks.
I took the author Fred Reed to be making sarcastic remarks and I followed suit. I do think People of Color (see? even that appellative has a bit of sarcasm to it) they have been getting a bad shake and it's not by other groups that hate 'em, it is by people of their own kind. Side note, I am drifting a bit, many of the slave traders in Africa during the times of such commerce were Blacks. Not mean old ugly White guys, uh uh, their own kind. It continues to this day.

Bigotry: stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

as differs from prejudice: preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

I grew up with People of Color, school, played in bands with 'em, was in firefights with 'em, seen a few get married, been to a couple funerals, you get the picture.

Some I like, some I don't like and I could say the same for any ethnic, spiritual, racial, gender, age group I have taken interest in.

My uncle Letsgo Lozko told me: "If you like everybody you meet you're not meeting enough people".

OK, heading for shore.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 27, 2014 10:43 PM

Until President Obama, things were getting better again with ethnic groups. Every time it seems like things might get better, some black "leader" shows up to stir up trouble, almost as if they have a vested interest in racial disharmony and animosity.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2014 8:09 AM

Chris:
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep the conflicts under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2014 8:53 AM

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ~ Mencken

Politicians cannot afford to have the population examining what they're actually doing.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2014 10:40 AM

I didn't enslave anyone, oppress anyone, dictate where anyone lives or works, so I accept no responsibility for anyone's problems but my own. "They' can come get their reparations from my cold dead hands. I will be conveniently located in the middle of a pile of spent brass.
Molon Labe

Posted by: tscottme [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2014 1:08 PM

Their heads explode just like everybody else's.

For reasons I'll never understand, people like to make this more complicated than it is.

If they want to live like animals, let em, the problem is self-fixing.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2014 6:47 PM

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