Perspective
Posted By: ricksteroni      1/25/2013 12:47:36 PM
Brutally Honest, by Rick
Original Article

Can I get a show of hands of those of you who abhor the notion that at one time in America this sort of thing was commonplace? The Jim Crow laws and system of etiquette were undergirded by violence, real and threatened. Blacks who violated Jim Crow norms, for example, drinking from the white water fountain or trying to vote, risked their homes, their jobs, even their lives. Whites could physically beat blacks with impunity. Blacks had little legal recourse against these assaults because the Jim Crow criminal justice system was all-white...