A lot of you who follow me on Twitter may remember when I asked was DC called Chocolate City. Well my co-host of The Bleach Johnson Show made this T-Shirt as an answer to the racist white guy who had the N*gger Please Shirt. I think his shirt is playing the same racial injustice that I despise but I do think it’s funny though. What do you think?
It’s 2008 and people still wince when they see a black man and a white woman or vice versa. Although I have never been in a relationship with another race, I’ve always found a few woman of different races attractive like Rosario Dawson, Elisha Culbert and Lucy Lui. With more and more mixed women populated the videos is black on black dating dying?
On June 21, 1949 in St. Louis MO, a bunch of black youths went for the first swim in a newly integrated pool. No violence happened to the children while they were swam but as they cooled off from the hot summer’s sun a MOB of whites gathered around the gates of the pool. Upon the blacks exit, the Fairground Riots began.
In 1949 there were 9 pools in St. Louis, 3 Indoor pools for Negro’s 4 for whites and another 2 outdoor pools for whites only. Until a reporter asked the city’s welfare director, John J. O’Toole, “whether Negroes could be allowed to swim in all the city’s public pools,” as “there was no law saying they couldn’t.” O’Toole replied: “If the colored people apply for admittance, my order is to admit them. I am not going to be a party to an unlawful gentleman’s agreement.” He used the phrase, gentleman’s agreement, to describe the tradition of segregation that the commissioner seemed to endorse.
When the Black children arrived at the pool that morning the whites entered the locker room and turned back around. That’s how the Mob of angry whites grew outside of the pool. They shouted racial slurs and made threats. After the pool closed the police had to come and escort the black children home. But Time Magazine reported
. . . all that afternoon, fist fights blazed up; Negro boys were chased and beaten by white gangs. In the gathering dusk, one grown-up rabble-rouser spoke out. “Want to know how to take care of those niggers?” he shouted. “Get bricks. Smash their
heads. . . .”The crowd cornered two terror-stricken Negro boys against a fence. Under a volley of fists, clubs and stones, the boys went down—but not before one of them had whipped out a knife and stabbed one of his attackers. In the surge of fury the nearest whites kicked and pummeled the two prostrate bodies, turned angrily on rescuing police with shouts of “nigger-lover.”
The story of these riots goes on to lead to ten African Americans and five whites had been hospitalized. But it’s stories like this and many more like it, filled with hate, pride, and strength that Americans have over come. Yet many are still wading through this hate. Obama’s candidacy is one of the final steps we have to take to help heal America’s old wounds.
Nas – Nigger [Listen]
Wow, This song has left me speechless, If you ever wanted to know what it was like to grow up in the projects of Urban America then listen to the first verse of this song. There has been a lot of controversy over the title of this song/album. I have no problem with it, think about it. (more…)
