TOL Topic of the Day: MLK Day:How have race relations changed/not changed?

[steko]

Feet hurt!!!!!! haha!

But seriously, a lot of stores only had one restroom or one drinking fountain.
In those cases there would be a sign "No negros" or "Whites Only".

I grew up in south central Texas, but now live in northeast Texas with my sister.
It's a town about 50 miles east of Dallas, Texas, called Greenville.

Here is the sign that hung over the entrance to the city before it was finally taken down in the mid 60's.

That looks a whole lot like the town that I grew up in, in West Tennessee.....minus the sign.

 

[aCultureWarrior]

How have race relations in the U.S. changed/not changed since the "I Have A Dream" speech?

Since I grew up in the era when there were separate drinking fountains and restrooms for blacks, I think the U.S. has come a long way.

Yeah, right.

“More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library this past Wednesday, the first of many jarring points she made in a riveting presentation."
http://laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/black-men-prison-system/

I'll go with the ideology of Booker T. Washington (who should have the national holiday instead of King) over that of communist sympathizers W.E.B. Dubois or Martin Luther King Jr.

 

[Ktoyou]

What race?

 

[Ktoyou]

I see your point, although, I believe Fred would be more tolerant of Julio now?

 

[HisServant]

But as far as MLK Jr. was concerned, poor people did not deserve these cynical views of yours. They deserved more. That's why he organized the poor peoples campaign in 1968. As far as economic opportunity is concerned, blacks and other poor people are probably worse off than they were then, because now there's no social mobility. You are stuck in the economic class you were born in, thanks to Republican and DINO policies.

I call phooey on that one. You are only stuck if you allow that mindset to sink in.

 

[PureX]

A beautiful song honoring Martin Luther King ....

 

[eameece]

I call phooey on that one. You are only stuck if you allow that mindset to sink in.

It just takes a lot more "mind" to get "set" than it otherwise would have, had not the Republicans taken over and ruined our country's mobility.

 

[eameece]

Except that's not true for Warren Buffet or Bill Gates.

Or anybody who has the drive and intelligence to make something of themself.

Yeah, you are a great example. I wanna be a dinosaur! :first:

 

[eameece]

How have race relations in the U.S. changed/not changed since the "I Have A Dream" speech?

Since I grew up in the era when there were separate drinking fountains and restrooms for blacks, I think the U.S. has come a long way.

If today's Republicans had been in charge then, that would still be true. They do anything possible to avoid making any needed changes.

 

[Tambora]

If today's Republicans had been in charge then, that would still be true.

Do you see that in your crystal ball?

 

[aCultureWarrior]

Do you see that in your crystal ball?

Would you care to discuss why so many black males are in prison today? This will of course lead back to the Booker T. Washington-W.E.B. Dubois debates, MLK Jr. of course being on the side of the communist Dubois.

It's probably over your head.

 

[Granite]

Segregation isn't institutionalized and racism has been forced to get slyer with time. Also the Gen Xers and Millenials are far more intolerant of racism than generations before them. That said, it still persists, and may always linger in the species. Frankly you don't have to look very far to find it.

 

[eameece]

Do you see that in your crystal ball?

No, my crystal ball tells me about the future. Any idiot can see what Republicans do. They block all needed changes and actions.

 

[some other dude]

In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes.

[See http://www.congresslink.org/civil/essay.html and http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/3/82.03.04.x.html.]

 

[Quincy]

I couldn't say really. Where I live, the Mexicans cook a good meal and that has always been a constant. The black people, they are somewhere around, I'm sure. I just haven't seen any out in public . Now when I lived in Canada, I was in the minority, and so therefore I was very agreeable with everyone else.

 

[aCultureWarrior]

I couldn't say really. Where I live, the Mexicans cook a good meal and that has always been a constant. The black people, they are somewhere around, I'm sure. I just haven't seen any out in public . Now when I lived in Canada, I was in the minority, and so therefore I was very agreeable with everyone else.

Wow.

 

[some other dude]

Any idiot can see what Republicans do. They block all needed changes and actions.

Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957

Nine black students are denied entrance to Little Rock Central High by the Arkansas National Guard on orders from Democratic Governor Orval Faubus.

Nine black students are escorted to and from Little Rock Central High by the United States Army on orders from Republican President Dwight Eisenhower.

eemee, you really can't afford to be this stupid.