Posted on 09/18/2011 9:20:58 AM PDT by flowerplough
...In 1964, in West Virginia a fourteen-year-old Henry Louis Gates Jr. broke his hip and went to a doctor who x‑rayed his knee, which was also in pain. The doctor saw nothing wrong with his knee and deemed his pain psychosomatic. "He said that I had a nervous breakdown because I was an overachiever," Gates said. "He said colored people weren't supposed to do as well as I had done. I had been stressed out and there was nothing wrong with my knee. White guy thought I was imagining things. And that's why I walk with a cane and I've had a dozen operations since I was fourteen." Gates remains bitter about the whole thing. "I hope that motherf***er's burning in hell."
Duke Professor Wahneema Lubiano, ... took the National Merit Scholar's test and placed as a semifinalist. But when she went to the guidance counselor, he suggested she go to secretarial school. "And I believed it," she said. "I went home crying but I believed it." ...
In the fall of 1960, in Greenville, South Carolina, an eighteen-year-old Jesse Jackson tried to use the public library. He was home from college and needed a certain book for a speech he had to give. "I went to the colored library," he told me. "Librarian said, 'I don't have that book but my friend at the Central Library does. I'll write you a note and I'll call her. She's my friend.' ... When I got there I went in the back of the library and two policemen were standing there talking with her. No doubt she told 'em I was coming.
"So I give her the note. Said, 'May I get the books?' She said, 'I'll have 'em in about six days.'
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
It would probably help a lot if they stopped calling each other niggers. Tune in a Black comedian and you’ll hear that word so many times you change channels. Too many of them have no respect for themselves.
I am not so sure I ‘believe’ the renditions of Gates and Jackson, while admittedly it more than likely happened, with them sort of embeleshing it.
Now, with rabidralph, I am not sure it is racist other than the clerk thought your family was inherently stupid (for one reason or another) and figured you wouldn’t notice the difference in the TV you were looking at and the others, which in an essence just points out the stupidity of the clerk, as I always had the impression that money was ‘green’ and the boss/owner didn’t really care who put it in the till as long as it was ‘his’......
A friend that I worked for is a Ret COL USA that went to West Point in the early to mid 50’s followed up by Fort Benning.
He and his classmates used to have ‘fun’ by going to the clubs outside the gate (GA) and be refused service because my friend was Black.
More often than not, the ‘Band of Brothers- 1 Black, other 5 or 6 white’ would ‘teach’ the owner what Brothers were about.
Naturally this wasn’t an everynight thing but my friend did note that he didn’t recall being invited to accompany any of his classmates on Leave or other family get togethers - not that he would have gone, he did ‘understand’ the situation but his wife ‘never forgot’.
A lot of that ‘changed’ when he attained the rank of LTCOL, but then again, the times had also changed.
Sadly, because of the hard work of BO and his minions, including Holder, I see a late 50’s early 60’s attitude on race beginning anew and hopefully it doesn’t get any ‘worse’.
Anytime someone publicly discusses getting rid of affirmative action, there is a chorus of, “America isn’t where it needs to be YET,” stated by blacks as fact with no supporting evidence, despite a minority pres(id)ent.
Your post is very true. It is time to move on - especially after all the cruelty and ruination inflicted by the Civil War and the Jim Crow era.
Very well put. Had a co-worker once who always asked the color of the criminal when we were discussing something from the paper. I once asked him if he would feel better if he was robbed by a black man?
He actually replied that at least a black man would have some money. Total idiot.
I can hear it almost daily where I work. It is 98% minority.
The most racist thing that ever happened to be was the affirmative-action election of a racist US President based on the color of his skin.
and when I wanted to go to journalism graduate school at Boston University, the student aid office told me there was no financial aid to be had because I was not of the right socioeconomic class
(Not able to afford tuition with a widowed mother and 2 younger sibs on Social security, I declined my grad school acceptance and joined the military within a week)
The most racist thing that happened to me was when my daughter was choosing colleges. A small scholarship, but nothing else. Only full scholarships went to the minorities, even though some of those girls weren’t the
“classic” ballerinas. We footed the $17,000 tuition ourselves by working and saving.
Jackson, Sharpton and the like will never, ever allow racism to fade away. They will continue to perpetuate racism to the point of taking heroic measures to keep it “alive” whenever and wherever they can, regardless of the ridiculous leaps in logic and reasoning that may be required in the process. There’s simply too much money to be made with it.
is it just me - or does anyone else notice - these three have zero contribution to society? 3 race pimps, with non-working moral compasses.
In all seriousness- if one started a list of “biggest turds” - these are three top contenders. maybe not starting team - but certainly - their names would come up.
Secretarywould bea step UP for Lubianno.
So Prof. had a bad guidance counselor. The explanation could be a simple as she went to a government run school. My public school guidance counselor told me to learn a trade because I wasn’t college material. I now have a BS, MBA, and JD.
...I guess my parents didn’t want me to think that there were stupid/racist people in the world at that young an age.
I'm confused.
Was there some discrimination between the black and white televisions vs the color televisions?
Were the televisions kept segregated in different areas of the store?
Are you suggesting that the salesman tried to sell your father a black and white television but represented it as a color television?
The first two might be a very odd example of discrimination (of course you usually group items together in "like" categories) but the third might be simply mean the salesman was a con artist.
The salesman could try to rip you off due to race, but I can't determine that without knowing what your race is. Then again, if you are white, he's just a con artist. If you are black, it most certainly racism. That's what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton told me so it must be true.
Did you where sneakers that day? Perhaps he was a shoe-ist.
Well, we did come to this country with funny accents so maybe he thought we were stupid. I don’t know. I will say that a lot of what passes for racism is, in fact, stupidity. So I don’t believe there’s as much racism in America today as there was during the time of MLK and before. And if it’s covert racism, who can tell what’s in another person’s heart?
‘That my children will be judged, NOT by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Still stands today. Except for blacks, who somehow get to blame others, be perennial victims, and carry a chip on their shoulders that any CHILD would be challenged on.
Because? I for one do not feel guilty, nor am I a perpetrator.
I was told that too — “You don’t match the students at this school, don’t bother to apply for that math job.” Off the record, of course.
All the TVs were in one area of the showroom. Back in the '60s, I remember that there was very little color programming on TVs till later in the day or early evening, depending on what stations were early adopters of color cameras and technology. So you could watch a color TV in the morning at your house and most shows were in B&W and then when you got home from work, you could see a few stations in color.
Yes, the salesman showed my dad a B&W TV and told him it was color.
Agreed. First off, most people who claim "Racism!" don't know the meaning of the word. With the exception of a few supremacist groups and individuals, racism is gone, in particular "institutionalized racism." There's a bit of bigotry around, but it's NOT institutionalized at all, and it's certainly NOT all White against Black. This is evident when you compare recent Black immigrants to the US versus native born Blacks. In many cases, recent immigrants have done quite well, while those who are native born who find themselves to be challenged economically tend to blame "racism" or even "the White man's holding me down." With the least little bit of introspection, they would see that their attitudes and reliance on "popular Black culture" is damaging their prospects.
Mark
When I went to my high school guidance counselor in 1961 and said I wanted to be an architect, I was told that 'women don't become architects' and was assigned to typing and steno classes. Hated every minute of them!
He actually replied that at least a black man would have some money.
Why did you pass up such a great opportunity? You must surely have a few friends who happen to be black. You could have invited one of them to help you stomp the crap out of the idiot and then go have a few beers on what ever was in his wallet.
He gets robbed by a black man; you and the other fellow get free beer. Don't you see? Everybody would be happy!
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