Tuesday, October 25, 2005
 Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to give a white man her seat on a Alabama bus 50 years ago, got us wondering about the topic of "racial segregation in America." Things have improved since then, but not by much.
Did you catch the ABC Primetime Live chicks singing their "message of racism and White Nationalism?" Two pretty blondes being taught to stay clear of the blackmans juice.
Last Friday Spike Lee on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher suggested a levee was destroyed in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in order to flood the nearly all-black ninth ward. Lee said: "a choice had to be made, one neighborhood got to save another neighborhood and flood another 'hood, flood another neighborhood." Spike is clearly putting on a show for the cameras but there is some truth behind the sentiment. History has not been very kind to people of color and where they live is not always by choice.
THE NEW BOOK: SUNDOWN TOWNS (by James W. Loewen) points out "that thousands of American towns were deliberately kept whites-only." Sunday's Washington Post said "whites in America created thousands of whites-only towns, commonly known as "sundown towns" owing to the signs often posted at their city limits that warned, as one did in Hawthorne, Calif., in the 1930s: "Nigger, Don't Let The Sun Set On YOU In Hawthorne."...in that book the author writes, "I believe at least 3,000 and perhaps as many as 15,000 independent towns went sundown in the United States, mostly between 1890 and about 1930." In other words, blacks lived in places where whites didn't want to be.
NOT PART OF THE LUCK SPERM CLUB: During the Katrina aftermath Barbara Bush chuckled as she said: "So many of the people here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." As if they had a choice in life. If anything good comes from Katrina it put a spotlight on racism -- 50 years after the Rosa Parks bus -- its alive and kicking back people with dark skin.
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