This is a photo of Jimmy Brock, the manager of St. Augustine, Florida's former Monson Motor Lodge, pouring acid in the water as black people swam, in 1964. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been previously arrested for trespassing in it's segregated restaurant. “Jimmy kind of caught the brunt of it. He was a nice guy.” said Eddy Mussallem, a longtime friend and someone who knows nice - according to white American standards.
TMR thinks we can almost predict the behavior of "nice" white Americans, even today, by how each state felt about slavery. Florida, seen here, was a major slave state, so major niceness. Texas - where a nice police officer just resigned for threatening evil black children - it was one of the nicest slave states in the union, just ask Mexico.
So, see? Try studying American slavery, then and now, and you, too, can discover how this place really works:
I swear, you'll find some of the nicest stories you will ever hear in your life,...
Today whites claim they have no idea why blacks are poor
"There is a thorough understanding among [whites] in the way of seeing that the colored people shall never have much; they are united one with another to see that that is done."
- Robert Meacham, Jefferson County, Florida state Senator
Florida has always had one of the nation's most notoriously racist histories
Like Cliven Bundy, TMR started to "wonder" if this story would be reported on Florida television news. But then, once it was - just like Cliven Bundy - TMR also started to "wonder" if Cliven Bundy wouldn't have been better off living as a Florida slave,...because that's a reasonable thing to "wonder" about:
Being a slave would give Bundy something to do, other than spend all day wonder-ing.