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Sometimes I simply want to give up - will this country ever rid itself of the idiocy and evil of racism? Here’s another sad tale of self-segregation because apparently some of the St. Martinville, Louisiana’s, Class of 1973 have no interest in celebrating with non-white classmates.
According to reports, a reception is going to be held at the school at the end of September, followed by the homecoming football game. The letter notes that “all graduates are welcome to attend” those events.
After the game, however, “white graduates only” have been invited to gather at a classmate’s home. Invitees are encouraged to bring a “food dish to share.”
That’s right – a friendly pot luck for whitey.
“‘We’ve been doing this for the last 30 years,’ totally excuses three decades of discrimination and the burden of inequality. I’m glad that they found a way to fix this terrible indiscretion in 2012 and finally decide to integrate like it’s 1960, or was that the mistake? I can’t think of an intelligent person I know who would ever think it was okay to write or plan anything exclusively for ‘White People,’” commented one man from Lafayette, La.
Here’s video:
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So they’ll take nonwhite grads’ money for homecoming tickets but won’t them mix with the white grads?
They only wish they could re-segregate the drinking fountains.
We can wail and cry foul about self segregation in the south and still ignore the defacto segregation that is still rampant in other areas of this country.
Where do to real estate prices and various zoning laws and real estate practices prevent any non-whites from living there. Which has a lot to do with the agendas of the so called tea party. One of their objectives is to maintain this status quo.
You know, there is a part of me that wishes that the south had seceded. It’s episodes like this that reinforce that primal impulse. However, I recognize that as the conservative impulse. Fortunately, the liberal impulse prevails with some significant effort, and I just feel sorrow and pity for their ignorant, fearful, racist, devout and misled Christian asses.
To be fair to the modern folks down in St. Martinville, this “Whites-only” potluck dinner invite was sent out by a rogue group before they found out that the official SMSH (St. Martinville Senior High) committee had decided to fully integrate their festivities. Also, the principal and staff at SMSH has fully repudiated that invite.
A local report from ABC-TV Lafayette (LA) affiliate KATC-TV is here:
http://www.katc.com/news/st-martinville-class-of-1973-reunion-letter-causes-a-stir/
And I am sitting here in Georgia where the Democrat Party establishment are saying we need to honor our history and the unique “regional characteristics” when we choose candidates to run on the ballots as Democrats.
Some days its hard to keep on keeping on.
There is nothing “fair” about people excluding folks because of color. They just got caught in their racism.
There was another La school, charter this time, that forced girls to take pregnancy tests. If found to be preggers, she was kicked out of school.
My home state is filled with morans.
How to explain southern racism…
Rednecks beget Rednecks.
Sounds like Kwistian Kwapitalists would be a better description.