The 1960s were tumultuous times in America. Americans fought for and received improved conditions and civil rights previously denied to Black people and that denial was previously codified in laws designed to repel the movements to free African Americans from the vestiges of slavery. States, cities and counties went to great lengths to preserve Jim Crow laws, The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a separate but equal status for African Americans. The separation in practice led to conditions for African Americans that were inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. De jure segregation mainly applied to the Southern United States, while Northern segregation was generally de facto — patterns of segregation in housing enforced by covenants, bank lending practices and job discrimination, including discriminatory union practices for decades. Those who never knew this era and appeal to us to normalize all relations as though we are all equal and should look at incidents like Ferguson Missouri as anomalies, are inadequately informed about our violent past of quite recent times. Some skeptics even accuse our president Obama of being a plant of the Tri-lateral commission and other nefarious power brokers aimed at a New World Order, to appease the seething anger of minorities in our cities. Whereas, one remains cognizant of efforts by the Rockefeller creation, the Tri Lateral Commission, to corner gold markets and preserve the supremacy of the U.S. dollar and subsequent creation of the EU, I perceive that characterization as somewhat of an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. I concede that nothing is impossible in this weird world we live in. The link below is from a 1967 speech by the then H. Rap Brown, the founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a preeminent civil rights organization of the time. As you will see, the more things change and improve, the more they remain the same. Black men were being shot down in our streets back then as they are now. Only when force was met with force was there talk of negotiation. Mao Tse Tung once intimated that power is obtained from the barrel of a gun! https://youtube/watch?v=us00Yy6Fs8k
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:48:45 +0000
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