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Reply to "Has Joey Jagan disappeared from the face of the earth ?"

Django posted:
Gilbakka posted:
Django posted:
Gilbakka posted:
 

Django, in the 1950s and 1960s the news was full of names like Rosa Parks, Dr Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, George Jackson, Angela Davis, Muhamad Ali, the Black Panthers etc. Why? They were leading massive marches, strikes, sit ins and other protest demonstrations against entrenched US government policy against Blacks. Federal and state laws legalized discrimination against Blacks. There were separate seats for blacks and whites in buses, restaurants, cinemas etc. Separate churches for blacks who were barred from white churches. Black students were barred from studying in universities. All sanctioned by federal and state laws and enforced by the police, national guard and KKK.

Thousands of blacks were beaten, lynched, jailed, murdered etc during that period. 

Bhai, i know all of that,most of those atrocities was in the South,most Northern States did not have such policies.

Bai, pick sense from nonsense. Don't try to split hairs with Gilly. US presidents during that period were presidents of both north and south. Congress and Senate passed laws for north and south too. Millions of Americans in both north and south joined the civil rights movement. It was only after the costly struggle and sacrifice that President Johnson was forced to sign the US Civil Rights Act of 1964 that redressed old discriminatory and oppressive policies led to more sympathetic measures like Affirmative Action. The Civil Rights Act applied to both north and south.

Bhaiya,

US have Federal and State Laws,in most of the Northern States,blacks were treated differently,read up how the New England States helped the blacks to move from Southern States.

At this rate you and I will end up in a cul-de-sac. Jagan was pointing out that blacks in the US were at the lowest level of the social ladder in the 1950s-60s. He made a mistake by omitting the phrase "in the US", assuming that his audience was familiar with the historical facts. That omission is what caused the misunderstanding and controversy.

FM
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