this sucks..

[curmugeon]

When I read this story and heard it on NPR today my blood was boiling... I spent time in Mississippi back in 1959, I saw the segregation live and in living color. It was not pretty, it was the most degrading behavior I had ever seen.  It was no way to treat a human being, but in the South in 1959, a black man, woman, or child were not considered human. However this is 2010, but in Clarksville Texas, they are still living in 1959. Read this tale of judicial bias, racism seething just below the surface. Then read this story, the reporters notebook from the same story. An example of how racism still lives in Clarksville.

Maybe the town of Clarrksville needs to lose the civil rights suit that will go to trial next year. They (Clarksville and a few public officials involved in this case) are being taken to court on a civil rights case and the brothers are asking for $2 million dollars. This will bankrupt the town or be very painful for those who live there, but I thin they need to feel the pain,  a lot of pain. Time for Clarksville to wake up and smell the roses. Time for Clarksville to start living in a way that all men are created equal...or suffer the consequences.

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[cathy-edgett.livejournal.com]

What a horrible tragedy. Shocking! I wonder though if money will ease the prejudice. I don't know how that is done. There has been change and obviously not enough.