history is with us

[ursako]

I just read this powerful post by Rick Perlstein about open housing in late '60s Chicago. The rhetoric used then, by whites who desperately argued for their right to remain free of black 'infiltration' of their neighborhoods, sounds all too familiar. Many mention an editorial by Barry Goldwater that stated, 'rights, and respect, are earned

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[wendolen]

Wow, you're not kidding.

I wish I had something more articulate to say, but instead I have a churning stomach and goosebumps from reading all those excerpts. Jesus fuck -- my countrymen were brazen enough to commit opinions like that to paper, less than 50 years ago? It's horrible.