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To: kearnyirish2

Bravo! A real historian. Many don’t know about the government’s role in Black society. A very negative, destructive role, but, it did keep them down on the “plantation.” Another failed social experiment — at great destruction!

And, not many know about the great northern migration after the civil war, with the resultant urban blight.

Nothing important about our history is taught anymore!


28 posted on 04/05/2012 6:50:02 PM PDT by cpa4you (CPA4YOU)
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To: cpa4you

Thanks; I actually got to see the later part of the story when I was in college. I was working as a janitor, and we had many unionized steam pressers that were Southern blacks. They were great workers, mostly in their fifties (this was in the late 1980s), but they would describe problems with their children that were just terrible; the same type of stable jobs weren’t available to that next generation, and it really impacted them - the people I worked with had come up from the Deep South in the 1960s when good jobs were plentiful (we were right outside of Newark), and were the last generation to have those opportunities.

Just a shame; today you see much of the same dilemna (and reaction) from a wider pool of Americans facing the same dim employment opportunities...


29 posted on 04/06/2012 3:33:12 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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