Institutionalized Oppression Quotes
The slavery issue was the dominant issue in pre-Civil War America. It even drove foreign policy.
Two decades earlier leading Black politicians, observing the differential deleterious effects of drug use on Blacks called for a massive Federal effort to diminish substance abuse. The War on Drugs responded and reduced the drug use in America somewhat. However, the unintended consequences—especially for Blacks—caused many Black politicians to call for an end or serious curtailing to the War on Drugs. The differential effect on Black males was dramatic. White drug dealing tended to occur in private offices and homes where black dealing takes place to a greater extent on the streets where the lower level dealers are much more likely to be caught. The differential penal;ties for possession or selling of powdered cocaine (preferred by whites) and crack cocaine (preferred by Blacks) caused many more Blacks to be jailed. With less access to the better attornies, the Bplacks tend to get longer sentences, even for the same crime. In addition, the drug of choice for most whites is alcohol which was made legal while the drugs of choice for Blacks are illegal. In many Black urban neighborhoods like Newark, the majority of young Black men arwere in jail for ddrug law violations. See {624056} for a concurring opinion.
This song and this musical was a profound attack on the essence of racial segregation at a time when discrimination was legal and practiced throughout the country and almost universally in the South. Southern politicians castigated the song, the show, and especially Hammerstein who they called a Communist for promoting such radical views. Ironically, South Pacific became one of the most frequently produced High School Shows by 1979 and remained so into the 21st century including in the South.
A Southern Republican congressman with a voting record that was against minority interest, for the first time in American, interrupted and insulted the President of the United States in the midst of an invited Presidential Address to Congress given by Barack Obama, calling him a liar. Carter, himself a Southerner, recognized the motivation.
to the Civil Rights demonstrators Hoover, an inveterate racist himself would not allow FBI agents to protect Civil Rights demonstrators (see {637634}) until he was ordered to by the Attorney General.
Asked if there was still much racial prejudice in major league baseball:. The remark led to his resignation.
Trent Lott was the Senate Majority Leader and at Strom Thurmond’s birthday party made a speech that the country would have been much better off had Strom been elected President when he ran as a 3rd party candidate on a program of legal segregation and racism. Few of the major media reported on this, but Conason and few others published it on the Internet, some TV stations picked it up, and soon the major media were all writing or broadcasting about it. Lott was forced to resign as Republican Majority Leader.
Many historians of higher education to not agree with Wilder’s overall generality. However, it was certainly the case that slavery was a major factor in generating the funds for some early universities in the North, but others were “hotbeds” of abolition from their very inception.
