Trayvon enters Deep South’s painful history - good read

[malaise]

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http://www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13822&Itemid=188
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Once, at a service station in Sanford, after we had missed the Auto Train because of an accident on the road which had backed up traffic, my traveling companion and I made a decision to take Highway 95 north to New York. A 30-ish black man walking down the sidewalk approached us in a friendly manner: “Where you from? You have a nice car!” When we told him we were from Miami, he said, “Don’t stay here. It is not safe here for black people. There is nothing good here for a black man.” Prophetic words, indeed, given recent events.

My first connection with Sanford was getting off the Auto Train when I first arrived to take up a position at Florida International University. I had learned that it was an easy way to bring my car down, boarding just outside Washington, D.C. Looking back, our friendly black Sanford resident now seems almost an oracle.

Sanford is a small Florida city with a great deal of history, some of which is of Southern racism which the film 42, on Jackie Robinson, revealed as domestic terrorism that forced him to quickly leave town to prevent what seemed an impending lynching.

VIRULENT RACISM

Mims, Florida, where the first branch director of the NAACP, Harry Moore, and his wife Harriette, were firebombed and killed in 1951, is near Sanford and, indeed, he died on his way to a hospital there.

[midnight]

1. Discrimination against one is discrimination against all.... When we wake up and understand this,

we will no longer tolerate this divide and conquer strategy that has been the corner stone of the ruling class....

[Tippy]

10. Agree 100and 10%

[Triana]

2. Is there a link? n/t

[malaise]

5. Link added

thanks

[Boom Sound 416]

3. What was the point of the nice car reference?

[Nay]

7. I believe the man in Sanford said that as a polite way to strike up a conversation

with the couple from Miami.

And I'd like to see the link, too, OP, so I could read the whole piece.

I have my own story about a town in N central Florida, but I'll save it for later.

[Boom Sound 416]

9. fair enough, but i'd like to see the link too

curious to hear your story.

[Octafish]

4. Ronald Reagan declared his 1980 candiduncey in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Dog whistle for hate, it was: Three civil rights activists were murdered there on Aug. 4, 1964. J Edgar Hoover's informants not only blew the case, they failed to stop the murders. In 2005, one KKK turd finally was tried and found guilty.

These are officially racist times. These are officially gangster times. These are officially NAZI times. Trayvon is murdered legally. Is there a common pattern emerging?

[malaise]

6. And it's not just in the US either

Watch Europe carefully

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

8. Sharing with all I know. Thank so much!! :)

[malaise]

12. You're welcome

[Heidi]

11. Kick!