Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the integration of the Little Rock Central High School, something that had to happen at the point of Army bayonets after the then-governor of Arkansas called out the National Guard to prevent nine black kids from attending the school. The photos of children who were going to school being yelled at by angry racists were printed worldwide.
If the Trump White House issued an official statement of commemoration, I missed it. One thing about Trump, when it comes to trying to reach across the racial divide, he never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. And he missed a big one. A public statement, let alone a quick trip to Little Rock, would have garnered him so much positive press coverage, something that the World's Oldest Toddler craves like a junkie trying to score his next fix. But I suppose that would not have satisfied Trump's inner-Nazi, not to mention angering his core support from the American Nazi community.
On the other side of the Aisle of Disgrace, Anthony "Carlos Danger" Weiner got sentenced to 21 months in prison for sexting an underage girl. Once he gets out of stir, he'll have to register as a sex offender wherever he lives. But don't fret about ol' Carlos, for disgraced politicians, regardless of party, always seem to land on their feet.
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Yes, plenty of 2nd and 3rd acts for disgraced pols. Weiner seems intelligent and capable but kinked. A year or so in stir will do him good, probably result in a book.
Wonder if the identity of the snarling girl in this picture is known. It would be interesting to see her interviewed today: https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/buildings/litlrck2.JPG
Goggle snarling Little Rock nine and read the resulting Wiki entry for her.
Kind of hard to imagine right now, a president with what it takes to do what was necessary to get those kids in the school the supreme court said they should be in.
-Doug in Oakland
Had time to look it up, Hazel Massery. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Massery )
Thanks, CP88. Some partial redemption, it seems.
Sadly, schools today are as segregated as they were in 1956. Even where they are de jure integrated, they are de facto segregated internally, with most white students tracked to separate classes from most black students. At least one of the Little Rock Nine is very bitter about that. Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine, feels she gave up her childhood innocence in vain. "What kind of country doesn’t see education for all children to be the primary value? I think the US has two values: segregation, which they do so well, and violence."
So it goes. We give lip service to equality yada yada, but when it comes to the real thing... not so much.
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