[On the segregation era]
Perhaps some of us misremember the past. But the racial, religious, cultural, social, political, and economic divides today seem greater than they seemed even in the segregation cities some of us grew up in.
Back then, black and white lived apart, went to different schools and churches, played on different playgrounds, and went to different restaurants, bars, theaters, and soda fountains. But we shared a country and a culture. We were one nation. We were Americans.
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Your actions have helped to widened those divides. Either you are a complete dumbass or outright malicious. Guessing from your previous work, i am going to say that you are very much a malicious man who deserves nothing but pure misery. Please, dying in a fire is far too good for you.
Perhaps some of us misremember the past. But the racial, religious, cultural, social, political, and economic divides today seem greater than they seemed even in the segregation cities some of us grew up in.
Yeah. Ever since the end of segregation only one black has managed to become president of the United States. And catholics? I don't think anyone can remember having one since Kennedy, during segregation. What about the military? Back then, they didn't discriminate against niggers, kikes, wogs or spicks. To Sgt Hartman you were all equally worthless. Nowadays there's womenfolk and queers in your showers. Hell, even Mormons can find acceptance and have a chance at gaining political office nowadays. The United States has become an increasingly inequal country since segragation bit the dust.
Wait. What was your arguement again?
If he's implying that racism is still running rampant and that the Civil Rights Movement is far from over, then he has a point.
Of course, he is NOT implying this.
OK, so please explain to me how the divides are greater now than back when we had different schools, churches, water fountains, theaters, restaurants, etc?
Do these people even try to sound sane any more?
We often misremember our experience with racial studies. The religious divides are much greater in achieving the kind of segregation we need. It's as clear as black and white that when we lived apart we had to build all these different schools and churches. We even had to walk between playgrounds miles apart. Not to mention the restaurants and bars which didn't even sell soda, so we all shared with a guy from outside the country. Lacking culture, our nation has disappointed Americans.
It's not that the divides are greater. It's that people have more tools and opportunities to call attention to them, even as they're shrinking. What he remembers as unity is actually the suppression and delegitimization of dissent. Which still goes on, but nowhere near the extent it did in some parts of history.
The sad part is, I almost don't blame some people for misremembering the past. They were mistold it in the first place.
This son of a dick? I blame entirely. When you've got a national platform, you do your fucking research.
...and we all drove to work in cars not built by Obama's GM, looking at the lovely countryside, pondering the glorious day ahead back then, too!
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"Back then, black and white lived apart"...
..."We were one nation."
Didn't you just contradict yourself in the most blatant fashion? Are you really that stupid?
I noticed you didn't mention that the blacks were forced into substandard neighborhoods with lower wage jobs, when they could find any at all, while the white people got all the goodies.
Also I have several black friends, and 2 half black cousins. Wonderful people whom I would never have had the chance to know (my cousins may never have even existed) had segregation remained in effect.
So tell me, Pat, why was segregation a good thing again?
@Percy Q. Shunn
Wow! That pic alone is making me cough! *Blehhhh*.
(At least it isn't fat men in diapers or deformed people or whatever it is you usually post. Heck, I pretty much grew up near factories in my old hometown of Niagara Falls, N.Y., so I'm used to the sight. Most have since closed down, though. The good news - air's cleaner & less stinky...The bad news - economic depression & a slow death of a once-great city. But it's not like the bozo's in charge can't think of something else...y'know, like TOURISM! Buffalo's reinvented itself as the Arts/Culture/Education-Based City...with can't Niagara find something new? That said, factories are still gross.)
Some of whom lived in the bad part of town with bad schools and third world hospitals doing shitty jobs and being despised and shunned in return, having their vote denied to them and getting hosed and beaten by police (or worse) if they complained.
But all Americans, of course.
Translation: Yes, United We Stood as a nation back in the "good ole days" of Jim Crow, Segregation and Apartheid. Just don't get caught looking at a white woman or walking in the wrong part of town, nigger...
Yes'suh, mastuh, suh. I'sa get back in the cottonfield, mastuh suh. I'sa sawy I done gone into the white lady's bathroom or sats too close to the front of the busses, mastuh. I be a good negro...
Oh, I forgots, mastuh... I'sa be meanin' to say fuck you, mastuh, fuck you in da cunt with a rusty shovel. We all bes Americans, but some of us bes dicks; Isa aint be sharin' no culture with you, mistuh asswad suh.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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