tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post9042519004865842363..comments2024-03-23T19:16:01.555-07:00Comments on Can it happen here?: Civil Rights 2013 -- a cautionary view from Alabamajaninsanfranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-61145877522628855442013-08-26T07:22:31.446-07:002013-08-26T07:22:31.446-07:00Thanks for publishing this memorial piece. It brou...Thanks for publishing this memorial piece. It brought back so many memories from that time and place.<br /><br />A couple of years after that, in 1965, I was a white graduate student at Vanderbilt university and teaching at Fisk University, that bastion of Black history, achievement, and courage.<br /><br />My colleagues told me many, many stories at our various gatherings about the horrors of their struggles in Nashville, horrors that to this day have not ended, of course, throughout the country.<br /><br />I'm grateful that I had that experience that taught me so much about the nature of human beings, in terms of both it's grandeur and its shame.<br /><br />One amusing aside: I remember how I, a Northeastern liberal was simply flabbergasted as I realized that many of my black colleagues at Fisk were Republicans. I couldn't understand it until some of them reminded me that the Republican party was the party of Lincoln.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-73544106198346915042013-08-23T09:58:19.184-07:002013-08-23T09:58:19.184-07:00Some areas are probably making progress and some, ...Some areas are probably making progress and some, it's getting worse. I heard them discussing last night how for blacks the stop and frisk laws are the bigger issue than digital spying. And whites the other way around. A lot of it being based around economics. We should though care a LOT about the stop and frisk as what they can do to one group, they can eventually also do to us. Stop it when we see unfairness or watch it grow.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-65540811356937853772013-08-23T07:39:48.027-07:002013-08-23T07:39:48.027-07:00That is powerful. Personal, historical and aware o...That is powerful. Personal, historical and aware of current trends. <br />I hope there are enough great people like him to get us through the trials to come. Hattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13297404386730167834noreply@blogger.com