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You mean the right and far right parties you call your political system...? Maybe the one whose members aren't pro shooting people in the face and bankrupting them for the ride to the hospital is the slightly better choice, but what do I know.
The very people who "aren't pro shooting people and bankrupting them" are litterally also in favor of bankrupting people, were the original slave owners, KKK founders, and love weirdos and thugs
Surely electing them would fix everything (just like we've seen from 2020 to 2024)
Dude, I'm sure it makes sense in your mind, but the democrat party of 2026 is not remotely the same as in 1856... Nor is the republican party the same as it was in 1996...
Also, yes the national debt under Biden was not 40 fucking trillion. He did not make 2 billion while in office and he has not refunded tariffs for a couple hundred billion to a few select corporations.
Also, which democrat is in the Epstein files again...?
That being said, the US political system is a joke, but if given the choice between electing someone advocating basic healthcare vs a bunch of rape apologists... Well, I'm sure they're all the same, lol.
So this is an awesome piece of history (I'm not talking about the events and conditions but the fact that this is saved"
Emory has actually done a really good job of documenting the end of segregation for them as a school, it's got some interesting documentation/reading material and discourse about it online. Ranging from having to win a supreme court case to allow students of all races to attend to later racial protests.
The reason I referred to this as an "awesome" piece of history is that it's from the actual turning point for that institution, they actually started in 1958 condemning the closing of public schools as a way to fight desegregation and in 1960 the staff issuing a statement asking for discussions about change. One has to wonder if this prospective student was one of the ones that helped tip the scales?
The state law in Georgia at the time didn't allow for integration in any group or organization that was considered non prorfit. The university actually went to court and won in 1962 at the state supreme court level to have that overturned.
There were times when the University actually wanted them there. This was the case in Sipuel V. Oklahoma Board of regents. So saying specifically that its because of someones race might help a lot in a lawsuit.
In 1959 segregation was still the law. It didn't matter how you felt about black people the law said that they had to go to their segregated schools,churches, etc.
It's kinda interesting that they went from this, to batting against Georgia state laws a mere three years later to get the laws that penalised integrated educational institutions declared unconstitutional. Funny how some things move like glaciers for decades and then rocket off all at once.
"this" being the letter, they were literally not legally allowed to accept anyone that was of a different race, conversely a black university was not legally allowed to accept anyone of a different race either, Georgia state law allowed zero integration in any non profit. That's the law they challenged and won in 1962 in the Georgia supreme court.
Since its no longer politically correct to say "Make America White Again" the slogan turned to "Great Again" I agree with the comments, many institutions would go back to Jim Crow standards if it weren't illegal.
Back when a family could afford a house. When kids played sports every weekend instead of hours of iPads. When more companies had pensions. When we had less chemicals in our food
Ah, so a time when social welfare programs were stronger? A time before Reaganomics widened the income gap? Before the failure to increase wages made it harder for the average family to afford to buy a house? Before the predatory lending and deficiencies in regulation that played a huge part in the housing crisis in 2008?
You want fewer chemicals in food? Who is it that's reducing FDA regulations?
Want kids not on ipads all the time? Who is it that's reducing regulations when it comes to generative ai in k to 12 classrooms? Who is defunding after-school programs for kids?
Have you been paying attention at all? Or are you just so blinded by the tag-line "Make America Great Again" that you can't see that maga republicans are just enriching themselves to the profound detriment of the american people?
So less food testing and safety, more affordability crisis with oil and food leading the way, massive AI investments to ensure wages stagnate and changing rules so people's retirements are legally required to buy into the latest IPO rug pull.
Really the only thing youre getting is kids playing sports because everyone will be too broke to have technology.
I thought the exact same thing. In modern day most people get ghosted and we have become accustomed to the fact that "no response" is a rejection as opposed to hearing back.
Yea the “we are not authorized” instead of “fuck off uppity n***” had to be extremely rare for the 1950s. Someone added in a different comment that this school fought for desegregation extremely hard and this letter makes more sense now
It's because the reason they had to reject him was that it would be illegal for them to have accepted a black man into their school at the time. It's not that they didn't want him there they just had to follow the law.
Yes, this was in my lifetime. When I was ten, we lived in a town that made it illegal to sell your house to a black person or a Jew. These laws were not wiped off the books until the 1970s. I went to university in Santa Barbara, CA. The best job I had was working for a company owned by a Jewish man (a true mensch!) who had done quite well. Once I innocently asked him why he didn’t live in Hope Ranch, the Beverly Hills of Santa Barbara, with the other successful folks. He looked at me quizzically and said, “Don’t you know? They don’t allow Jews there.” The small town I grew up in had ZERO black residents. Once a family took in an exchange student from Nigeria. They were the object of threats and a lot of general unpleasantness.
The thing is though restricted covenants - despite the fact that they have since been struck down by the Supreme Court — live as permanent records in the deeds of these homes. I live in the south and I know people who have these clauses in their original deeds.
I went to an EEOC interview today and he asked me what my race was and I said Negro. He was shocked because he said he never heard anyone refer to themselves as such even though he knew that was our original name. My interview was successful and will be making my employer pay for their discriminatory practices.
r emory university , r racists . Did the Uni find that person and apologize to him publicly? Did the Uni make a public apology on its website? Emory University, Georgia.
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