What California Was Really Like During Brown V. Board

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Some (many?) white people seem to be under the unfortunate modern day misconception that racism, even recently, was restricted to the South and blacks elsewhere were doing fine. A better way to think about it is - if this was how Nat King Cole was being treated in California as Brown V. Board was being passed - life for blacks who were less fortunate, in California and elsewhere, was regularly approaching a Hellish surrealism. But that's not what's important today. What's important today is this:

Conservatives insist the long history of white domestic terrorism, the unanswered crimes of all other kinds, or the general state of white American-bred mayhem blacks had (and have) to live with and under, are unworthy of respecting (as having had an effect on those targeted or their communities) so they are also unworthy of reparations. 

Yes, Sir, openly calling blacks crazy, instead, is their brilliant "colorblind" plan for reconciliation.

That's what's important.

All, a total break with the past,...

There Will Be No Recycling Here

Angela Davis' lawyer died this week. 

He'd already helped Nat "King" Cole live in a white neighborhood.

Richie Havens also died. Finally. I'd break his guitar, too.

It's the only way to be sure.

And - speaking of "finally" - this week claimed "The Crown Prince Of Country Music," George Jones. 

He was so special, I can still remember exactly where I was, and what I was doing, the first time I heard him. Just standing there, stunned, at the depth of all he drew.

He was real.

 Yes, Sir - culturally speaking - I'd say Death had a pretty good week,...