New proof that all town-hall protesters are racist: Guy tears up woman’s Rosa Parks poster

Nah, banjos are too festive. Lynching is serious business: we just hum “Old Man River”. Have some respect.

guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 2:56 PM

Whoa….stay classy…..

CrankyIndependent on August 13, 2009 at 2:57 PM

Oh, I’m sorry…did I offend your delicate “independent” sensibilities?

guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 2:58 PM

Yeah you did. The era of lynching is one of the darkest, most horrific periods in American history. Forgive me while I don’t laugh as you make light of a practice that was meant to mutilate African Americans psychologically, emotionally, spiritually AND physically. Har, har! Oh, the laughs they never stop.

CrankyIndependent on August 13, 2009 at 3:02 PM

Lol..do you ever read. The black family was largely intact until the advent of welfare in the 1930’s, which advantaged single black moms at the expense of families.

Wanna admit to the 400 years canard now?

Or never?

guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 3:17 PM

I’m genuinely curious what books you’ve read that allowed you to draw this conclusion. Seriously.

Because I’m not sure where you’re getting your historical facts from. Let’s just go over a few historical realities.

1. If you think that the most stable family unit is a non-working wife and a male laborer who financially supports the family than we can not really say that after emancipation there weren’t serious tensions placed on black family stability. We know, for example, that from the beginning of the reconstruction period black women worked outside of their own homes. Either as laundresses, or domestic servants in white households. We also know that even middle to working class white southern famiiies often employed black women as domestics to add to assist white women in their domestic labor and allowing them to focus on educating their kids at home (the most popular form of education in the south).

2. We know that if/when black men could find employment outside of sharecropping it would half to involve travel. Pullmancar porters, for example, was one of the best paying jobs black men could get (and the first unionized black labor force) but those jobs pulled men away from families and up and down the railcars.

3. When industrial employment was opened up to black men during the New Deal many left families behind in southern towns to take jobs in Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee etc. Sometimes eventually bringing the family with them, but alot of times not.

Look these things were realities and its not time for anyone to “apologize.” But if you’re going to claim that “welfare” broke down the black family in the 30s with the New Deal you’re sorely mistaken.

CrankyIndependent on August 13, 2009 at 3:26 PM

Doesn’t explain why the victorious north, freed of that machiavellian Lincoln by an assassin, did not kick the black man down. but denied 8 million whites participation in the Union until they passed guarantees of black suffrage.

And if Reconstruction had ended with the Radical Republican Congress then you might be right. But the election of 1876 did happen and the deal to award Hayes the Presidency did exactly what you described, left African Americans without the support of Union troops to keep back terrorist attacks against the democratically elected governments in state legislatures. And we all know (hopefully) what happened over the next decade. Without federal monitors every state had passed some version of “Jim Crow” laws by the end of the 1880s. African Americans, on the books, had the right to vote but over 95% of counties, save the most urbanized, blocked black voter registration through grandfather clause, poll tax, poll test or, the most popular way, threatening those who attempted to register with violence, death or having land burnt to the ground.

Yes it’s ugly. Yes it happened. The Civil War ended legal slavery…that’s pretty much all we can say.

CrankyIndependent on August 13, 2009 at 3:36 PM