Who needs and order?
There has been NO more Kent States since an 'innocent bystander' got killed.
Posted on 07/21/2017 4:55:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
It was actually Belleville. Same town the lunatic baseball shooter came from. It borders East St Louis.
A shoot to kill order should have been issued to deal with rioters, arsonists, and looters. It might have changed such antics in the future.
I made a side trip there a couple of years ago.
It’s just about faded and blown away.
A post-apocalyptic look to it.
Who needs and order?
There has been NO more Kent States since an 'innocent bystander' got killed.
Thank you for the link. I see on my post I mixed up ‘67 and ‘68. In ‘67 we didn’t go to Tiger Stadium because of the aftermath of the rioting and in ‘68 the anger after the murder of Rev. King made taking bus loads of little kids down town a poor idea.
I see I mixed my recollections, ‘67 was the year of the riots, ‘68 was the pennant race and Series wins. We didn’t make it either year, the anger following the riots in ‘67 and Dr. King’s murder in ‘68 made it too risky.
It was a strange era that’s for sure, my parents could go to the Ann Arbor area to hear Motown bands in mixed race clubs but day trips to shop at Hudson’s Dept. store became too hazardous to consider after a certain point, stories of rocks through the windshield at traffic lights, etc.
Sounds like Grand dad had a great deal!
It’s a shame, Detroit was a great city. I remember seeing military convoys on US 127 during the ‘60s, National Guard on their way to summer camp I’m pretty sure. Before the riots we made lots of trips into Detroit to shop, see shows and so forth, after the riots it was only to meet relatives coming home from Viet Nam.
It’s a shame, Detroit was a great city. I remember seeing military convoys on US 127 during the ‘60s, National Guard on their way to summer camp I’m pretty sure. Before the riots we made lots of trips into Detroit to shop, see shows and so forth, after the riots it was only to meet relatives coming home from Viet Nam.
I remember stories in the Detroit Free Press about the players doing that, Willie Horton in particular.
DET ran off with the pennant in '68 and won the WS, dethroning StL.
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It was southern Illinois, later in life, that taught me how hateful and racist blacks could be.
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The only time in my life, other than in a war zone that I ever fired at another human being. Cairo, Illinois 1968.
Yes, thanks, see my #46 and #47.
I grew up in the same area... the whites whose ancestry led back to Dover TN were no better....they brought their nastiness with them.
The mound site between East St. Louis and Collinsville was used by the KKK to hold large meetings and to burn crosses and rail against Catholic immigrants and blacks the local union thugs feared were competition for jobs.
Most towns in the area were Democrat-run union sundown towns where no black dare stay past sundown.
It predates me, probably you as well but there is some reason for them to develop the attitude you saw- they could say the same for whites of a certain ilk.
“Progressives” - just made it worse. No one fears a black person [or white trash from west Granite] will take their job so long as the EBT cards, etc., hold out.
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