8917 Little Rock 9

Federal troops sent to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce school de-segration legislated into law by Brown V. Boad of Education Supreme Court case; President Eisenhower speaking on necessity of deploying troops to resolve situation against intransigent school board.

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[mustangjjz109]

God bless Ike.

[Khultan]

@xexixk Thank you so much for your generosity. I'll sub to you.

[Khultan]

@xexixk  You're right, back on topic.

[xexixk]

@Khultan If it was simply b/c of the ethnicity of the whites in the south, then the same conditions would have existed all over the rest of the US.

[xexixk]

@Khultan No you didn't, but we're talking about the American south not Hitler - two different and unrelated cases. Hitler was a demogogue who exploited the prejuidices of much of German society who were desperate and living in poverty b/c of a completely collapsed economy in order to gain power. In the American south racial segregation and attitudes were a hold over from the past.

[Khultan]

I hope I didn't derail the topic with that last line, Xexixk.

[Khultan]

@xexixk Please, pardon me, if my questions may be indiscreet or of a personal nature. I'm trying to understand and thank you for your response. I was born in America, late 60s, and I am bi-racial. I was not exposed to the overt racial problems a decade earlier and still too young, throughout the 1970s, to be really affected by most of the fallout, in regards to lingering racial views. 'It didn't have to do with the ethnic heritage of any whites' interesting. Hitler didn't feel that way.

[xexixk]

@Khultan Well the situation in the American south at that time was different than in other parts of the country - in the northeast for example. Other groups of people were treated pretty badly at times of our history as well. Irish immigrants were treated horribly, as were Italians. In the case of the South it didn't really have anything to do with the ethnic heritage of any of the whites, but rather the racial practices that lingered even after the end of slavery and the civil war.

[Khultan]

@xexixk Well, the point that I'm driving at is, aside from the overt predjudice, indeed, the outright hostility towards Black (?) Americans or people of African descent, I'm curious about nature of different European descendants who immigrated to America, the English, Irish, French, Serbs, Germans, Italians, Jews (Israelis), Swiss, Norwegians, etc. There, is a history that is rampant througout the ages of brutal hostility rejection of the other's ethnicity, religion, culture, etc.

[xexixk]

@Khultan It would have been extremly mixed, I don't think you could pin it down to any specific ethnic group - most Americans of European ancestry are rather mixed. The question of ethnicity has never been possed to me personally, I'm not sure how I would answer. The bulk of my ancestors where from Germany and England, but there's a Scot in there as well, a bit of Irish and then Swiss Germans also. So I suppose I could only describe it as being a Euro-mutt :-)