The Little Rock Nine: How Far Has the Country Come?

The Atlantic ^ | 9/25/14 | Noah Gordon

[LambSlave]

We don't even have the right of association, unlike every other race or ethnic group in this country.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did this-- and by destroying our God given right of free association and permitting legal discrimination against whites, caused far more harm than good; two wrongs can never make a right.

[mrsmel]

I totally agree. And what makes it even more galling is that blacks etc get to play both sides-they don’t want us to have freedom of association, but they have no scruples in saying that they don’t want whites around, i.e. gentrification and such, when it suits them. We’re just supposed to go where we’re told when we’re told and continue to pay for the “privilege”. Anything which is majority-white, even if it happened organically (which is the case in almost anything majority-white anymore), is a “problem” to be dealt with through social engineering.

it was Coleman Young, the first black mayor of Detroit, who said, after the first big wave of “white flight’, that no matter where whites ran, they would follow. Why would they want to follow so closely, a people who they claim “oppresses” them? That sounds like a parasite/host relationship.

[Verginius Rufus]

One of the best known photos from the 1957 crisis shows a white girl yelling insults at the back of one of the black children who was attending Central High School. Both were 16 at the time. About 5 years later the white girl, Hazel Bryan Massery, now a young mother, realized that her kids would grow up and see that photo and that she would be the face of the hatred whites showed to blacks at that time, so she contacted the black young woman (Elizabeth Eckford) and apologized. Later the two became good friends for many years and would go shopping together, but later they drew apart.

A man named David Margolick wrote a book about the two of them--I saw a C-SPAN show about it several years ago. Perhaps the two women have made up by now. It appears that the other black people in Little Rock never were willing to forgive Hazel, and white people were unsympathetic too. Somehow she became the symbol of all that was bad about the old days. A lot of the white kids at Central High were unpleasant to the black kids but no one hears about the other ones, only about Hazel.