Reference 'racism' in Minneapolis, It should be considered that the
cities here started as a solidly Scandinavian, European stock community and
it should be normally expected that afro types would be culture and
community different. The reverse, as in South Africa, where the major
population is black, they are literally chasing the whites out.
I have noted from long back that in Minneapolis, if you want to be
in politics, just run out in the street and yell rascism and hey, you are in
politics. Such type of politics does lots more harm than good. Such people
should read an old southern novel and get some reality about it all.
I heard first hand that before the 1954 major civil rights
activities, in Southern cities there was harmony between the whites and
blacks, a lot of blacks had domestic work jobs with the whites, the blacks
and whites circulated amongst each other and all went well, no crime
problems, everyone got along. Then after 1954, it became two armed camps,
no more interaction and the whites suddenly all having big guard dogs.
It is interesting to read about Wall Streeter Bernard Baruch, when he
bought 'Hobcow', a large anti bellum Southern plantation -as vacation and
hunting preserve, and it was populated still, by a few hundred black
families. Baruch kept everything as it was, he sort of governed the place,
made it work well and handled matters of all kinds for the blacks and helped
them -if they wanted- to transition to a northern city and have work there.
The story is pertinant as a lesson to Minneapolis, as if some of the
activist crowd read of it they might gain a much less abrasive and more
successful manner of dealing with whatever issues they have and the city
would be a more easily governed community and lots more congenial place for
everyone to live.
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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