History of US Race Relations

[djAdvocate]

this video skips over economic oppression in the form of redlining, etc, but it gives a really good overview of political and legal issues underpinning US race relations.  i think what is interesting about it is how many arguments that WERE made for keeping black people down during the post war antebellum era are heard today.  i use the word interesting guardedly.

in any case, here is an hour well spent, if you have it:

[Tennesseer]

Watching now.

[haapai]

I think that I've either seen this vid before or seen other vids by the same guy.  It was still shocking. 

I had a pretty good high school history class 40 years ago so some of what he mentioned was familiar.  We covered the importation clause and the three fifths clause but I don't remember the fugitive clause.  Black codes were mentioned without going into any detail or ever mentioning how selective the enforcement was.  Pig laws were never mentioned.  Debt peonage was alluded to but only in relation to sharecropping, which kinda leaves out the worst of it. 

<Sigh>  Everything that I ever learned about convict labor came from reading GWTW in elementary school.  God bless Mrs. Hage for giving me the stink eye when I mentioned some of the ideas that I'd picked up from that book! 

1942!  Wow!

[billisonboard]

And today: Black mayor of tiny Alabama town says he was ousted by his White predecessor