My sister lives in US and told me that there are two schools in her town: the “mostly white” one and the worse one. Kids go to one or another based on their address. She said that her kids went to the better school and she had to prove her residence only once and then no one bothered her anymore. Latinos were asked to prove their residence every year. Penalty for sending your kid to the better school while living in the worse part of town? Jail. This is still happening in US today.
I had to explain to my mother the other day that this used to happen so often, even my Grandpa had a side hustle as a Navy commander to help buy his sailors’ land, because VA loan or not, they wouldn’t loan to some of them. And that was from the 60’s to the 80’s.
My mother was born in the mid-1930s and from time to time she likes to talk about “the good ol’ days” of her childhood when people respected each other blah blah blah. I remind her of the horrific racism and she’s like “but I didn’t even know any black people!” lol.
Scarier still this mindset is creeping back.
Never left.
Quarantined to mostly one party, but never cured.
In honor of NWA, Fuck The Police!
This guy is a stand up dude.
I saw ‘BHM’ and read it as ‘big handsome men’. Was confused for a bit.
“Big Handsome Men in you local area want to help you. Click now!”
He wasn’t, as housing discrimination was illegal. He was sentenced, later overturned, for sedition, for trying to start a race war as part of a supposed communist plot
And everyone knows that if something is illegal it can’t happen.
In 1954, directly confronting the practice of rigid racial segregation of residential neighborhoods, the Bradens assisted an African-American couple, Andrew and Charlotte Wade, who wanted to buy a suburban home but had been unable to do so due to housing discrimination. The Bradens purchased a house on behalf of the Wades in Shively, an all-white neighborhood in the Louisville metropolitan area, and deeded it over to the Wade family. It was reported by Braden that someone had thrown rocks through the windows of the house, burning a cross in front of it, and firing gunshots into the home – and then bombed the house (setting off explosives under the bedroom of the Wades’ young daughter while the home was occupied), driving the Wades out and destroying the home. As a result of their actions, Carl Braden was charged with sedition. Although housing discrimination was illegal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling specifically on a case in Louisville, Buchanan v. Warley, in 1917, charges were brought against Braden for hatching a communist plot to stir up a race war. A friend of the Wades was also charged with bombing the house to make it appear to have been done by others. No charges were filed regarding the other incidents.[1] Braden denied the accusations that his purchase of the house and its subsequent bombing were all part of a “communist plot”, and denied that he had ever been a member of the Communist Party.[1] He was convicted on December 13, 1954, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Immediately upon his conviction, he was fired from the Courier-Journal, and he served seven months of his sentence before he was released on a $40,000 bond pending appeal – the highest bond ever set in Kentucky up to that time.[1][2] His conviction was then overturned.[2][7]
Oh fuck that shit. They essentially charged him with being a “race traitor” and they called him it with the charges. That’s so fucked up.
The charges were very much because they were looking for any possible reason to put him behind bars for the act of buying that house.
“Here is his mugshot, taken at 19 years of age.”
