"I'm not going to have a goddamn mob tell me what to do."

[whyverne]

Quoting James Gabrielle to Charles Kuralt at the Frantz School in New Orleans, 1960.

James Gabrielle was one of the few white parents who had the balls to take his daughter to school at the newly integrated Frantz School. When Charles Kuralt called him courageous for running the gauntlet of angry parents; his shirt was ripped, his daughter was crying and he said the above line.

He told his daughter, "Don't cry, you have to do this again tomorrow".

She said, "I know, daddy".

I wonder how many parents would stand up to a mob like that today.

James Gabrielle, his wife Daisy and their daughter, Yolanda; were finally driven from their home a few months later and relocated up north.

True American heroes. They lost the battle but the war was won.

[Cha]

1. That applies very

much to today's mobs. They've blown their mob wad.

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. Right on.

[alphafemale]

3. On the other foot. My mother tried very hard to make me racist

I grew up in Ohio which wasn't segregated by law but just because of the quiet segregation of demographics I didn't actually have a nonwhite classmate until the 5th grade. We actually had a "sensitivity training" of sorts before she joined the class.

But back to my mom. And the active racism.

She Hated that I loved the seventies shows like Good Times and Sanford and Son.

"You'll see what ____ are really like when you really have to go to school with them in High School!

I went to HS. It was integrated.

"Mom they're people. Some good. Some bad. Like anybody."

Well then, just wait til you have to work with "them"

? I'm sorry...but what?

Just wait until you have to have "them" work for you.

? I'm sorry...but what?

Just wait until you have to have one of "them" over you.

? I'm sorry...but what?

I've honestly never seen the difference some people swear is there.

I honest to gawd don't get it.

It's just pigment for gawd sakes.

[Booster]

5. I had a similar conversation with my 82 yr old friend yesterday.

Somehow the conversation turned around to her saying "but they hate us white people" and I said "and you hate them too" to which she got this funny look on her face and said "well, yes". I said they have more right to hate you than you do to hate them" and she again said "well, yes." That ended that conversation. And this woman is Jewish and was around when being Jewish wasn't exactly accepted either. I just don't understand people.

[david13]

4. The war was won, to an extent. The major opposition today to

Barack Obama comes from the color of his skin, first, and the political party to which he belongs, second.
But for the first time, when Barack Obama was elected Nov 4, I felt my first moment of pride in the usa, and a tear came to my eye.
I think there is hope for the future.
dc