You seem to be saying that blacks and whites can get along if they maintain an employer-servant relationship.
You have a right to that opinion. It is a free country. And I have a right to say that view is appalling. The life of Bernard Baruch does make interesting reading: http://www.scetv.org/legacy/laureates/Baruch%20Bernard%20M.html http://www.hobcawbarony.com/bernard_and_belle_baruch.htm It's hard to see what the lesson here is for Minneapolis. Mr. Baruch bought a series of South Carolina rice plantations in the early twentieth century as a retreat for hunting season. Minneapolis doesn't seem like a great spot for a plantation or hunting retreat, and I doubt that even a wealthy wallstreeter could afford to buy a plantation-sized piece of land within the city limits. Rosalind Nelson Bancroft James E Jacobsen wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
