What, you think you got some fancy 'racial entitlements' or something?

[ck4829]

It might be just me, but why does that sound like the thing they said to people who got ran out of 'sundown towns'?

[OceanEcosystem]

1. Said by who, to who? n/t.

[ck4829]

2. Scalia, on the Voting Rights Act

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014409824

[patrice]

3. "sundown towns"? Like Greenwood, near Tulsa, OK, back in, what, the '30s???

[LoisB]

4. Like Greenwood, Arkanas; Duncan, Arizona et al where "don't be here when the

sun goes down, ni**er" was/is the norm. See "Sundown Towns" by James W. Loewen.

"Whites Only within city limits After Dark"

[patrice]

5. Thanks, so, that's not like Greenwood, OK, which was an AA community in OK

that was invaded and massacred by White racists back in the '30s I believe. If I recall correctly, there was no "precipitating" event claimed as an excuse, as there often is, the killers just went into Greenwood and murdered a bunch of people. I don't think anything ever became of the incident in court either, though there has been a memorial established for the several dozens of victims. Though, according to Howard Zinn, things were pretty damned rough in this country from the start, that century from approximately mid 19th to mid 20th century was particularly bad.

[Bake]

6. Those silly minorities, thinking they're entitled to vote!

Bake

[spanone]

7. republiks think no one is entitled to anything....except them.