years ago, I couldn't work where I work now, I couldn't live where I live now, but am I wrong to work here now, am I wrong to live here now? If I couldn't go to school at school x years ago, am I wrong to go to school x now? I couldn't go to the grocery store then, couldn't drink from certain fountains then, had to ride the back of the bus then (that list of things I couldn't do could go on forever) , so because of that history, does that make it wrong for me to go to the grocery store now, to now drink from any fountain, ride in the front? etc. Or maybe thats what you want. Maybe you want segregation. Black folks shouldn't go to Bama or LSU. Maybe you think black people shouldn't be allowed to work here. Black people shouldn't be allowed to live there. Or Black people shouldn't go to school there. Since you brought up George Wallace, just maybe you believe in what he said, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"
btw, at some point, pro football (as was just about anything you can think of) was largely segregated. Am I wrong to pull for a pro team now?
Well MH...I'll start with the in bold part....Not exactly true...I would rather more white folks go to Southern and Bama State.....I more lean towards the benefits of the situation going the HBCU's way instead of the PWC....I lean more to our communities or our businesses growing from incoming folks and incoming talent and at the same time preserving our own. I in no way form or fashion want
our school to be segregated....I welcome all, all people, all talent, and ALL MONEY...Segregation....Wow....Deseg.....Wow....the tricky Battle fought by our forefathers that we have mis-interpreted....It was to have the right to go anywhere and be anywhere, but more importantly it was the fight for equality....not so that we would go and abandon ours, but more to go and get from to bring back to ours....It wasn't to just leave and support others, but more to go and get from others what you didn't have and bring back to your own and teach and share the knowledge or wealth in your own communities...It wasn't to go to Bama and LSU and become absorbed by them and then go out and bring more to them FROM your own, but more like go to Bama or LSU if they had something that wasn't offered at your HBCU, learn it, do it, know it, and then come back and give it to that HBCU so that they could offer it too....we missed the boat on this one....a lot of us have become cancers to our own and don't even realize it.....
Hell Pull for whoever you want, go where you want, its a free country....but there are, well there were supposed to be some responsibilities with that.....
as for pro football and the likes....that is the only game in town....where as they was segregated, it is not today. Just know that it was not changed for your benefit, but more for the benefit of money making....so was Bama, LSU, Ole Miss, UT, Ark, etc...
But when it comes to those schools they are not the only games in town. Pro Football or Pro B-Ball is not competing against those institution which you owe your all to....those schools where it is because of them educating us folk in the first place to have the wisdom and knowledge enough to go out and fight for us to gain the right to go anywhere and be anywhere. In other words it is because of Schools like Southern and Bama State that Black folk even have the opportunity to attend schools like LSU and Bama in the first place....It sure wasn't the Bamas and the LSUs that gave, no i'm sorry "Allowed" us the opportunity to learn the law and try and change it...
Or maybe like always I'm just pissing in the wind with this, since all is well in the world and everybody is doing so great....who in the hell cares now a day anyway, right?