About the southern cities scenario, I didn't say they had
integrated social events or that the blacks or the whites wanted to totally
interact socially, I doubt they did. I got that from my sister and brother
in law, who, as new PHD, they went to work at St Judes of Memphis, rented a
place and that's what their neighbors told them, that previously, the blacks
and whites had good working relations.
I said you should read an old southern novel, and check out
Bernard Baruch. Actually, Baruch entertained members of congress and the
President at his anti bellum plantation at Hobcow, Franklin Roosevelt
himself spent a good month there late in his time of office and during which
they would go to church, of course on Sunday and the only church there was
the black's church with the black preacher and they went and it is fun
reading the discussion of it.
The people carping about rascism are the ones who know and have
thought little of the background of it all. Having read a lot of the
histories, when I see people here and now in Minneapolis who think they
still are fighting the civil war, I am not charmed.
As to the white - black relationship being often one of employer and
employee -same as the white white relationship is often as
employer-employee- that is a big step up from master - slave, and nobody can
argue that today opportunity -for school employment and good life- is not
open to people of any race color or religion, at least in America.
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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