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Yvettep
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Post Number: 2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 01:38 pm: | 
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A follow-up on a story we talked about a while back: Georgia Prom Colors? Finally, Black and White--http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9775906
It was a night to remember for Georgia's Turner County High School. Over the weekend, the school held its first-ever racially integrated prom.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8448
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 03:02 pm: |
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America is almost a paradox, a population of regional customs. How the races interact differs from place to place and time to time. The longer I live, the more I realize how difficult it is to typify the American experience. My Daddy attended an integrated school, sitting right along side his white classmates waaaaaay back during the 1890s in Paola, Kansas, and according to him the students thought nothing of socializing together. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 4265
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 03:35 pm: |
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My Daddy attended an integrated school, sitting right along side his white classmates waaaaaay back during the 1890s in Paola, Kansas, and according to him the students thought nothing of socializing together.
(Until they hit puberty and then the only socializing they would do with him was with a rope!) |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8455
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 03:40 pm: |
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The students had already hit puberty but I guess you'd how this particular situation was since you were there. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 4270
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 05:16 pm: |
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The students had already hit puberty but I guess you'd how this particular situation was since you were there.
(See folks. This is why the race is in the shape its in. These old Negroes sitting around lying about how wonderful it was back then. When her dad could have white girls in Kansas in the 1890's.
Didn't you never even see Gordon Parks' "The Learning Tree"? Kansas was just like Mississippi--as was most of the U.S.
I heard an old Negro like this get on the radio bragging about all the good jobs black people had back in the 20's and 30's down South. When the host asked her why all the black people were fleeing North at the time she just shut up and hung up the phone.
Exhibit A about how bad it is in this country. Old Negroes are shell shocked. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 4273
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 05:24 pm: |
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(Ladeez and Gentlemen, Exhibit A.
Brown v Board of Education--Kansas case.
That Negro Cynique is crazy. Just how crazy is she? Who knows?
The case
The first Brown v. Board case started in 1951, when Oliver Brown, a black railroad worker of Topeka in Shawnee County, Kansas, sued the Board of Education for not letting Linda Brown, his daughter, attend Summer Elementary School, an all-white school. On June 25 and 26 of 1951, the US District Court of Kansas heard Brown’s case. The NAACP argued that segregated school gave blacks an inferior feeling. It was proven in recent years that blacks who attended desegregated schools achieved higher test scores than those who did not. Although the facilities were supposedly equal, the fact was that the facilities were, by far, unequal. The tar-paper shacks, which were used as the school buildings for blacks, could be mistaken for chicken farms. The Board of Education argued that segregation prepared children for adulthood segregation. On October 1, 1951, Oliver, the NAACP, and Thurgood Marshall brought the case to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court first heard the case on December 9, 1952 and had no decision. The Supreme Court heard the case again on December 7-8, 1953.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8460
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 06:02 pm: |
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Oh put your bulging eyes back in their sockets, chrishayden. My observation was anecdotal, a personal account of a unique situation peculiar to a particular location and time. Paola was a small little rural community that apparently lived by its own rules. An anachroism. My Daddy never tried to pass this situation off as anything other than ironic. |
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