Taking things from white people

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[TheTexan]

I'm sure it had nothing to do with race and Christopher Atkins was a respected pillar of his community

 

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[jmdrake]

FWIW my cousin was killed (decades ago now) by a white drunk driver who ended up getting a slap on the wrist. (Drunk driving laws have thankfully become tougher since then). And since you care so much about "muh ratios"

https://spartacuslawfirm.com/understanding-dui-statistics-by-race-ethnicity/

• In 2016, 82% of people arrested for a DUI were White, 23% were Latino, 14% were Black, and 2% were American Indian

What 2016 Population Data Say About Race and Ethnicity in America

The U.S. Census Bureau delivers new population-level racial and ethnicity data. Learn more about these results.

www.aecf.org

In 2016, 61% of the U.S. population identified as white, 18% as Hispanic or Latino, 12% as black or African American and 5% as Asian. About 2% of the U.S. population identified as multiracial. Less than 1% of residents identified as either American Indian and Native Alaskan or as Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander.

Carry on!

 

[jmdrake]

Be honest. You didn't understand Kendrick Lamar's halftime show last year either, if you even watched it. (I'll be honest and say have the time I couldn't make out half of what he was saying. I used to be able to rap along with rap back in the 1980s / 1990s but not anymore. I guess I'm just old.)

 

[jmdrake]

The photo is taken out of context. Whites were not forced at gunpoint to go to intergrated schools. The national guard was brought in to keep whites from attacking blacks who were coming to those schools. Whites were free to withdraw their children and many of them did.



Note that in ^this video a white mother talks about taken her son out of an integrated school. (Three black children in the entire school). So what was happening in the above photo? An anti integration protest was being broken up.

Little Rock Nine: Photos of a Civil Rights Triumph in Arkansas, 1957

Six decades after nine teens integrated Little Rock Central High School, LIFE shows photos from those ugly and, ultimately, inspiring days.

www.life.com

Segregationists rousted from an anti-integration protest, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957.
This is what was happening before the national guard was brought in.

And this:

And this:

 

[Anti Federalist]

Ah, I see you quickly edited your post.

Here's the original:

Fake AI generated picture is fake. Whites were not forced at gunpoint to go to intergrated schools. The national guard was brought in to keep whites from attacking blacks who were coming to those schools. Whites were free to withdraw their children and many of them did.

Seriously?

That photo and dozens just like them, showing 101st Airborne Army troops "routing out White segregationists" was published in Time magazine in 1957.

Little Rock Nine: Photos of a Civil Rights Triumph in Arkansas, 1957

Six decades after nine teens integrated Little Rock Central High School, LIFE shows photos from those ugly and, ultimately, inspiring days.

www.life.com

 

[Anti Federalist]

This is what was happening before the national guard was brought in.

It wasn't National Guard.

It was active duty 101st Airborne troops.

 

[jmdrake]

Ah, I see you quickly edited your post.

Here's the original:



Seriously?

That photo and dozens just like them, showing 101st Airborne Army troops "routing out White segregationists" was published in Time magazine in 1957.

Little Rock Nine: Photos of a Civil Rights Triumph in Arkansas, 1957

Six decades after nine teens integrated Little Rock Central High School, LIFE shows photos from those ugly and, ultimately, inspiring days.

www.life.com

It was in color which (to me) made it look fake, but then I tried to find it and saw the original B&W. I still say it was taken out of context. Those white kids weren't being forced to desegregate. They could have withdrawn from the (now integrated) public school.

 

[jmdrake]

It wasn't National Guard.

It was active duty 101st Airborne troops.

Hmmmm....I didn't realize that. I aksed AI about this.

Why were the 101 airborne used in Little Rock instead of the National Guard?

Qwen3-Max8:10 am
Great question — and it cuts to the heart of a major constitutional crisis in U.S. history.

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The Arkansas National Guard was initially used against the Black students — ordered by Governor Orval Faubus to block integration. Because the state’s own military force was enforcing segregation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower had to federalize the Arkansas National Guard and send in the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division — a loyal federal force — to enforce the law and protect the students.

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Full Context:​

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The Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Little Rock, Arkansas, developed a gradual integration plan, starting with nine carefully selected Black students — the Little Rock Nine.

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On September 4, 1957, as the Little Rock Nine tried to enter Central High School, Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard — not to protect them, but to prevent them from entering. He claimed it was to “avoid violence,” but in reality, he was siding with segregationists.

Key point: The National Guard is under state control unless federalized. Faubus used it as a tool of massive resistance to civil rights.

3.​

As president, Eisenhower was reluctant to intervene in state affairs — but when a governor openly defied a federal court order, it became a constitutional crisis. The rule of law itself was at stake.

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On September 24, Eisenhower:

• Federalized the Arkansas National Guard (taking it out of Faubus’s control), and
• Ordered the 101st Airborne Division — elite U.S. Army troops from Fort Campbell, Kentucky — into Little Rock.

Why the 101st Airborne?

• They were a federal, combat-ready unit known for discipline and loyalty to the U.S. Constitution.
• Eisenhower needed troops who would follow federal orders without hesitation — unlike the National Guard, which had just been used to block integration.
• The 101st had a heroic WWII legacy (e.g., D-Day, Battle of the Bulge), lending moral weight to their presence.

5.​

On September 25, 1957, under armed escort by the 101st Airborne, the Little Rock Nine finally entered Central High School. The soldiers remained for the rest of the school year to ensure their safety.

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Constitutional Significance​

This was the first time since Reconstruction (1870s) that a U.S. president used federal troops to enforce civil rights in the South. It affirmed that:

• Federal law supersedes state defiance.
• The executive branch has a duty to uphold court orders.
• States cannot nullify constitutional rights.

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Visual Reminder​

In the photo you shared, the soldiers with bayonets are not the Arkansas National Guard — they are U.S. Army paratroopers of the 101st Airborne, identifiable by:

• Distinctive M1 helmets with straight edges (vs. National Guard’s similar gear, but context confirms identity),
• Their role as escorts, not blockers,
• Historical records confirming their deployment.

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Further Reading (if you're interested):​

• Eisenhower’s televised address to the nation on September 24, 1957 — a powerful speech on the rule of law.
• The memoirs of Melba Pattillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine (Warriors Don’t Cry).
• The Will Counts Collection at the University of Arkansas.

Let me know if you’d like help finding the wider-angle photo or other images from that day — I’m happy to continue!

 

[Anti Federalist]

It was in color which (to me) made it look fake, but then I tried to find it and saw the original B&W. I still say it was taken out of context. Those white kids weren't being forced to desegregate. They could have withdrawn from the (now integrated) public school.

Would that be your reaction if Trump were to declare that the violence at HCBUs was a national security threat and sent in active duty military to enforce integrating them?

 

[Anti Federalist]

Be honest. You didn't understand Kendrick Lamar's halftime show last year either, if you even watched it. (I'll be honest and say have the time I couldn't make out half of what he was saying. I used to be able to rap along with rap back in the 1980s / 1990s but not anymore. I guess I'm just old.)

No, I didn't, I don't even know who that is, anymore than I I know who or what a Bad Bunny is.

We're both old, but that does not negate the fact that, whatever else this may be, it's garbage.

 

[jmdrake]

Would that be your reaction if Trump were to declare that the violence at HCBUs was a national security threat and sent in active duty military to enforce integrating them?

HBCUs have ALWAYS been intergrated so you don't know what the hell you're talking about. And yes I'm aware of the Charlie Kirk asshats getting run off. That has nothing to do with integration. In fact at that very university (TSU), white people get minority scholarships!

The White Man's Guide to Getting a Minority Scholarship

www.collegescholarships.org

• Tennessee State University is so down in its minority—white—population that the State is now funding “scholarships for Caucasian Tennessee residents.” These scholarships are rooted to the recent outcome of a lengthy court case known as the Geier case that has called over the last two decades for desegregation of Tennessee’s “dual educational” system of which TSU was a part. Long range plans for the desegregation have included assuring a balanced student body. During the mid-1980s the agreement put in motion a new system of other-race recruitment: black recruiters for white colleges and white recruiters for black. To those ends the Geier called for stepped up scholarships and financial aid to boost the process. In late 2006, the Geier case was finally dismissed on the grounds that the State had in fact effectively undone its dual system, thanks to the urgings of the Geier case over the years. The scholarships for whites cover room and board for eligible candidates.

What the Charlie Kirk asshats did would be the same as Nick Fuentes supporters going up to a Jewish Synagogue and pushing Holocaust denialism. Ultimately they didn't have a permit to table on campus.

By the way, did you know that the founder of the neoconfederate "League of the South" as a white professor at an HBCU?

Michael Hill

Michael Hill represents the intellectual but racist faction of the neo-Confederate movement and is its most important proponent.

www.splcenter.org

 

[Anti Federalist]

HBCUs have ALWAYS been intergrated so you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

So what's the purpose of having them then?

 

[jmdrake]

So what's the purpose of having them then?

The short answer, HBCUs were created at a time when blacks were, by the force of law, barred from majority white colleges and universities especially in the South. In fact in law school I learned about a Kentucky University that was originally integrated and forced to segregate. I asked AI for a refresher.
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What was the Kentucky university that was forced to segregate?

Good question — the Kentucky university that was forced to segregate (i.e., to exclude Black students after originally admitting them) was the University of Kentucky in 1949, following earlier segregation policies reinforced by state law.


However, if you’re asking about the earlier and most famous case in which a Kentucky university was forced to segregate by law, that would be:

Berea College​

• Location: Berea, Kentucky
• Background: Berea College was founded in 1855 by abolitionists and was one of the first integrated colleges in the South, admitting both Black and white students together.
• What happened: In 1904, the Kentucky legislature passed the Day Law, which made it illegal for Black and white students to attend the same school — public or private.
• Case: Berea College v. Kentucky (1908)
  
  • The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Day Law, ruling that the state had the authority to prohibit integrated education at private institutions.
  • As a result, Berea College was forced to segregate and could only admit white students until the law was repealed in 1950.

So, the answer is:
Berea College — the Kentucky university that was forced by law to segregate under the 1904 Day Law, upheld by the Supreme Court in Berea College v. Kentucky (1908).

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So it's laughable that you're worried about government force being used to force people to desegregate while you ignore the government force that was used to force people to segregate in the first damn place. Now why are there STILL HBCU? Why should institutions that have helped so many people over the years, including a lot of white people (think of all of the white people who have been made money from the peanut inventions by George Washington Carver at Tuskegee University) just because black people can now legally go to other Universities?

What's the point of having Chinese restaurants? What is the point of St. Patrick's Day? What is the point of Octoberfest? Why is it that white people only have a problem when there is something geared towards black people? I know the reason but I wonder if you do?